Autism is a disorder in which the child struggles in social interactions with involving communication and their behavior is very repetitive. (Miller) Usually children get this disorder around or before the age of three. However, sometimes symptom do not present them till later in the child’s life. The Center for Disease and Control (CDC) says that one out of every 68 children has autism. The CDC has found boys are four times more susceptible to get disorder then girls are. The annual cost for autism therapies and treatments are approximately 40,000 to 60,000 a year. Diagnosing autism is a two-stage process. In stage one there is a general behavioral screening to see if the child has any symptoms of the disorder. In the next stage a team of doctors and other health workers evaluate the patient to see if they show signs of autism or some other sort of developmental disorder. …show more content…
By not vaccinating they are still harming themselves. Since people have stopped getting their kids vaccinated, the CDC is seeing diseases almost completely eradicated, are now slowly re-emerging, like measles. Studies done by the CDC in 2011 and 2013 prove there is no link to vaccinations and any health disorders. In the 2013 study they took 752 children in a controlled study and matched them based on birth year and sex. After 2 years of similar exposure, the results showed there was no difference between the group that was inoculated and the group that had no vaccines and the occurrence of