Conflicting Reports On Autism Data

Should the United States Department of Education (U.S. DOE) data on autism be used and trusted? The answer may depend on whether you read the March or July issue of PEDIATRICS, the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In its March 2005 issue, the journal published an excellent report by researchers and epidemiologists from the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Divisions of Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota. Extrapolating from U.S. DOE special education data, the investigators found that autism prevalence hasbeen increasing with time, although recent years may mark a slowing in that increase.

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