Autism Rates Are Increasing , A Wake Up Call to the World

Autism is considered one of the disorders that people don't know much about. One of the reasons is that only a few actually want to know more about it, thinking that the disorder wouldn't cost any risk of impending danger in a human's life. With the increasing number of those who are diagnosed with the disorder, people are now finally eager to understand it.

The California Department of Education has recently gathered special education data, which showed that "the number of students diagnosed with autism has dramatically increased since 2001", as posted in Sacbee. According to the data gathered, about 97,000 public school students, most of them were in kindergarten, were diagnosed with autism. The 2006 records also showed that about 5,000 to 7,000 cases of children with autism have increased every year.

Because of the given reason, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) headed by the Alboma Austism Foundation (AFF) also conducted their first major report about autism. Their data showed that in every 65 students, one is suffering from autism.

Since then, the government started to act on the problem. In fact, the NCSE started to pledge €300m annually primarily to shoulder some of the expenses of children with autism, according to Breaking News.

The US Senate also recently passed a bill that could help individuals that are diagnosed with the disorder. The bipartisan bill has been named Kevin and Avonte's Law in honor of the two autistic boys who have wandered away from their guardians and perished.

The bill's goal is to help people with disorders like autism whenever they get lost or have wandered away from their caregivers. If the US government approves it, the bill's first goal is to allocate funds to finance more autism education and training programs and a "tracking technology" will be made possible, as noted by Pix11.