FG Trade/E+/Getty Images Autism diagnoses are becoming more prevalent in the United States. An April report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that approximately one in 31 children (approximately 3%) were diagnosed with autism in 2022, up from one in 36 two years prior. The CDC notes this is due not...
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images News/Getty Images On May 7, Robert Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a partnership between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a “real-world data platform” to study autism. This data-sharing plan would enable research by using data from Medicare...
sturti/E+/Getty Images When you have a child with a disability or developmental disorder, one of the first steps of intervention is to begin assembling a team of specialists to support them. What that team looks like will vary by the child and their specific needs. My daughter has autism, for example, and her care team...