Trends Over Time in the Prevalence of Autism by Adaptive and Intellectual Functioning Levels.

ABSTRACT: The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or

SUBMITTER: Furnier SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853238 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature