ARCHIVED INFORMATION & RESOURCES for FAMILIES

April is Autism Awareness Month!

April 3, 2014

According to new data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network of the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in 68 children are identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The number of children diagnosed with ASD continues to rise.

Read more about this ADDM study here:

• Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder among Children Aged 8 Years: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6302a1.htm?s_cid=ss6302a1_w
• 10 Things You Need to Know about New Autism Data: www.cdc.gov/features/dsautismdata/index.html

Additional Autism Spectrum Disorder Resources

The Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University released a new knowledge path and set of resource briefs about autism spectrum disorder. You'll find information important to families on ASD screening, diagnosis, treatment, care, and the impact on family life. The knowledge path also includes tools for health care professionals, program administrators, policymakers, and researchers to help them learn more about ASD.

The knowledge path is available here: www.mchlibrary.org/KnowledgePaths/kp_autism.html

Other ASD resources from the Maternal and Child Health Library include:

• Autism Spectrum Disorder: Resources for Families: www.mchlibrary.org/families/frb_autism.html
• Autism Spectrum Disorder: Resources for Schools: www.mchlibrary.org/schools/srb_autism.html
• Screening Resource Brief: www.mchlibrary.org/guides/screening.html