Autism in the State of Georgia

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Georgia has a high autism prevalence rate:

A 2009 analysis by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network revealed that 1 in 70 boys and 1 in 310 girls nationally has autism.

The numbers are even higher for Georgia, where one in 98 children has autism, said Dr. Amy Pakula, clinical director of diagnostic and evaluation services at the Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta. For boys, the number is one in 60; one in 294 for girls; and one in 83 white children compared to one in 105 African-Americans.

“I’m hard-pressed to think of another condition that has that same prevalence,” she said.