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- Event Title:
- Friendship Clubs - Ren Sculthorpe
- Filed under:
- Workshops and Information Sessions
- Event Status:
- Confirmed
- Event Date:
- Friday, Jun 14, 2013 11am - 1pm
- Location:
- ABIQ Office
- Event Owner:
- John Tennock
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This event occurs in the Australia/Brisbane time zone.
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Global Autism Prevalence Rates
The Autism Epidemic is global:
- United Kingdom - 1 in 86 children in the UK has Autism
- US - 1 in 88
- China - 1 in 100 &
- Brisbane, Australia - 1 in 100.
The treatment of Autism and related conditions is costing the Australian economy about $5.8 billion per year.
Source: The Autism Research Institute & Source: International Centre for Autism Research & Education
Autism is the fastest-evolving disorder in all of medical science.
Chairman, Columbia University, Dept. of Psychiatry
- Autism is the fastest growing disability in the United States.
- That means the condition is now more common than cerebral palsy, diabetes, deafness, blindness and leukaemia put together.
- Autism is more common than childhood cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined.
- Approximately 67 million people worldwide are affected by autism.
- The rate of autism is growing at 14% per year around the world. In China it is growing at a rate of 20% a year.
- The cost of autism over the lifespan is 3.2 million dollars per person.
