Contrary to previous findings, the increase in prevalence disproportionately affected children without co-existing intellectual disabilities. Documented cases of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the New York–New Jersey metro region increased by as much as 500 percent between 2000 and 2016, with
According to a new Rutgers study, documented cases of autism spectrum disorder in the New York–New Jersey metro region increased by as much as 500% between 2000 and 2016 among kids without any intellectual disabilities.
“What our paper shows is that this assumption is not true,” Shenouda said. “In fact, in this study, two-in-three children with autism had no intellectual disability whatsoever.”, researchers identified 4,661 8-year-olds with ASD in four New Jersey counties during the study period. Of these, 1,505 had an intellectual disability; 2,764 did not.
“Better awareness of and testing for ASD does play a role,” said Walter Zahorodny, associate professor at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and senior author on the study. “But the fact that we saw a 500 percent increase in autism among kids without any intellectual disabilities – children we know are falling through the cracks – suggests that something else is also driving the surge.”
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