So why are you hearing more about autism? According to Huliq News in a June 29th piece mentioning The Boy in the Window, a book by 66-year-old Barbara Coppo, whose autistic son, Kenny, is 29 years old, this is why:
Perhaps we are hearing more about autism in the news because there are more autistic children in America than ever before. The CDC’s most recent study estimates one out of every 150 children over the age of 8 is autistic or suffers from a related disorder. Today, 560 thousand Americans under the age of 21 have autism. That number is …read more