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Today marks the first day of Autism Awareness month. This month I will be doing short blogs everyday filled with useful or interesting (yet scary) facts about Autism. Please feel free to add to these messages through comments!
According to the National Institute of Health, they invest $30.9 billion dollars annually to medical research. Of this $30.9 billion dollars, they allocate only $169 million (2012) and $170 million estimated for 2013, yet the disorder is growing at an extremely rapid pace and now affects 1 in 50 children! Surely I can’t be the only one who sees something wrong with this information! I certainly don’t want to be the parent who says that one disorder is more important than another, but when Autism is growing in the pace that it is, and more and more families are being affected each year, it is time for someone to do something to help these children.
You can find the budget report at the link below…it will show you how the NIH research funds are allocated.
http://www.report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx
References:
National Institute of Health. (2012). NIH Budget: Research for the people. Available online at: http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm
According to the National Institute of Health, they invest $30.9 billion dollars annually to medical research. Of this $30.9 billion dollars, they allocate only $169 million (2012) and $170 million estimated for 2013, yet the disorder is growing at an extremely rapid pace and now affects 1 in 50 children! Surely I can’t be the only one who sees something wrong with this information! I certainly don’t want to be the parent who says that one disorder is more important than another, but when Autism is growing in the pace that it is, and more and more families are being affected each year, it is time for someone to do something to help these children.
You can find the budget report at the link below…it will show you how the NIH research funds are allocated.
http://www.report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx
References:
National Institute of Health. (2012). NIH Budget: Research for the people. Available online at: http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm