A lot has changed since 1994. Back then, if you asked people what autism was, most would scratch their heads and respond, “You mean like that character in the movie Rain Man?”
Ask the question in 2013 and you're likely to find that many more Americans have not only heard of autism, but may be personally affected by it. This shift in awareness aligns with recent findings from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicating that one in 88 American children have autism. This is an astonishing rise of more than 78 percent since 2000, when CDC first tracked autism.
So when it came...
