This article explores some reasons why Latino children are 32 percent less likely than white children to get an autism diagnosis, even though the autism rate has almost doubled in the past decade. Getting an official diagnosis matters because the sooner a child with autism gets help, the better his outcome will be. The article explains why Latinos aren’t getting diagnosed with autism at the same rate as whites and provides guidance to parents for getting help. We discovered that although most Latino children get diagnosed around the same age as white children according to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a certain segment of the Latino population gets diagnosed much later. This may be the result of patchy healthcare coverage, which could skew statistics from the CDC.
