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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:619-621.

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OVER THE LAST decade, few pediatric disorders have captured the attention of both the professional and popular literature as autism. The prevalence rates recently reported in numerous studies of autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) are consistently higher, by many orders of magnitude, than they were in the 1970s and 1980s.^1-4 From the time that Kanner⁵ first described the disorder in 1943 until the early 1990s, prevalence rates were reported across several nations as about 4 per 10 000. Since 1990, reported prevalence rates for ASD have increased to almost 60 per 10 000, with considerable national variation.^6-9

Alarm over the possible "epidemic" of autism, fueled by new epidemiological studies and fanned by the rapid proliferation of Internet and media coverage of the research has prompted the medical community to clarify this trend and its causes. In this issue of ARCHIVES, Gurney et al¹⁰ report an analysis of children receiving special education . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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