{"id":711,"date":"2017-03-07T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/?p=711"},"modified":"2017-03-07T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:36:46","slug":"autism-rates-in-the-united-states-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2017\/03\/07\/autism-rates-in-the-united-states-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism rates in the United States explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"topics\">The prevalence of autism in the United States has risen steadily since researchers first began tracking it in 2000. The rise in the rate has sparked fears of an autism \u2018epidemic.\u2019 But experts say the bulk of the increase stems from a growing awareness of autism and changes to the condition\u2019s diagnostic criteria.<\/h5>\n<article><strong>This article describes how researchers track autism\u2019s prevalence and explain its apparent rise: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews.org\/news\/autism-rates-united-states-explained\/\">https:\/\/spectrumnews.org\/news\/autism-rates-united-states-explained\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prevalence of autism in the United States has risen steadily since researchers first began tracking it in 2000. The rise in the rate has sparked fears of an autism \u2018epidemic.\u2019 But experts say the bulk of the increase stems from a growing awareness of autism and changes to the condition\u2019s diagnostic criteria. This article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2017\/03\/07\/autism-rates-in-the-united-states-explained\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autism rates in the United States explained<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}