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Laredo health department shares CDC ADDM findings showing later diagnosis and possible undercount
Summary
City health officials read a CDC ADDM (Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring) summary for Laredo showing later median age of diagnosis and a reported lower prevalence than other sites; the transcript records inconsistent prevalence figures that the committee said need further public reporting.
City of Laredo health department staff read a summary of a CDC Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) report to the committee on Jan. 27 that officials said provides new local autism data for 2022 and will be released to the community.
The news release read at the meeting said, verbatim, “1 in 103 of 8 year old children were identified with autism spectrum disorder by the Laredo ADM project in 2022,” and it said Laredo’s median age of diagnosis was 69.5 months. The release…
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