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Library Categories > Adult Issues > Embracing the Face of Autism: Are we Ready?

 
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Embracing the Face of Autism: Are we Ready? 		   
Summary Statement:

While speaking in Iowa on Nov. 24th, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged that, as President, she will help autistic families by boosting funding for research and education to $700 million annually and fully fund the Combating Autism Act of 2006, which she had sponsored. While Clinton's promises are commendable, they don't go far enough to help the many adults already living with autistic spectrum disorders. Because we don't fit in, we often fall through the cracks, and are ignored by most of society.

The adult autistic population is about to explode. Each year, about 25,000 children are diagnosed with various ASDs (autism spectrum disorders). The number of diagnosed cases has risen exponentially, from 1 in 10,000 in 1993, to just 1 in 150 in 2007. Children with autism grow up and become adults with autism. Are we as a society ready to embrace them?
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12/04/2007by: shannonj
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