South Korea just sent autism prevalence rates surging north. Autism spectrum disorders affect an estimated 2.64 percent of the nation’s schoolchildren, or about 1 in 38 youngsters, a new study finds.
That’s a considerably higher figure than has been reported in the United States, England and elsewhere, where prevalence estimates range between 0.07
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