Monmouth Foundation For Children

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The truth about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
The CDC reports that the national rate of children identified with ASD is 1 in 36 children
The prevalence of ASD in US Children increased 119.4% over 10 years
NJ has the highest rate of ASD in the nation: 1 in 34 or 3% of 8 vear-old-children are identified
According to a 2020 CDC report, 5.4 million people age 18 and older (lin 45 people) have an Autism spectrum condition.
Over the next decade, an estimated 707,000 to 1,116,000 teens EACH YEAR will enter adulthood and age out of school based autism services
The cost of caring for Americans with autism had reached $268 billion in 2015 and would rise to $461 billion by 2025 in the absence of more-effective interventions and support across the life span.
The majority of autism's costs in the U.S. are for adult services - an estimated $175 to $196
billion a year, compared to $61 to $66 billion a year for children.
In June 2014, only 19.3 percent of people with disabilities in the U.S. were participating in the labor force - working or seeking work. Of those, 12.9 percent were unemployed, meaning only 16.8 percent of the population with disabilities was employed.
Only 16% of adults with ASD have a full-time job. Most autistic adults with a job receive pay that places them well below the poverty level

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