Autism Awareness Month

Student Council Brings the Facts!

• Autism affects 1 in 68 childern according to a 2014 report by the U.S. Dept. of Disease Control.

• Autism is the fastest-growng develpmental disability in the United States.

• Autism cost a family $60,000 a year

• Autism research receives less than 5% of the funding of many less prevelant childhood disabilties.

• Boys are nealry 5 times as likley (1 in 4