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Autism Healthcare Collaborative has:

• Reached over 12,000 individuals through our programs and services.

• Provided 66 medical videoconferences for families and their physicians across the US and around the world, improving health outcomes by sharing knowledge.

• Donated videoconferencing technology, provided staff training, and developmental screenings at the grand opening of Haven International Learning Center in Ghana, Africa.

• Donated medical equipment to the Developmental Learning Centers in Warren and New Providence, NJ, creating a “doctor’s office” learning center, to help students with autism overcome their fear of medical exams.

• Coordinated international psychosocial and educational workshops for families and professionals.

• Presented to 20 researchers and professors from Shandong University in China, visiting the U.S, to learn about the state of autism and healthcare in our country.

• Sponsored winter sessions at the Bounce Factory to offer children with autism and their siblings an opportunity for exercise and play in a safe, inclusive environment.

• Hosted annual sensory-friendly carnivals for families living with autism in partnership with the Warren, NJ Lions Club and the Hillsborough, NJ Rotary Club.

• Sponsored annual toy drives and family holiday parties with “autism friendly” Santa and Elves with volunteers from local high school athletic teams.

According to the Centers for Disease Control:

• The total costs per year for children with ASD in the United States were estimated to be between $11.5 billion – $60.9 billion (2011 US dollars). This significant economic burden represents a variety of direct and in-direct costs, from medical care to special education to lost parental productivity.

• Children and adolescents with ASD had average medical expenditures that exceeded those without ASD by $4,110–$6,200 per year. On average, medical expenditures for children and adolescents with ASD were 4.1–6.2 times greater than for those without ASD. Differences in median expenditures ranged from $2,240 to $3,360 per year with median expenditures 8.4–9.5 times greater.

• In 2005, the average annual medical costs for Medicaid-enrolled children with ASD were $10,709 per child, which was about six times higher than costs for children without ASD ($1,812).

• In addition to medical costs, intensive behavioral interventions for children with ASD cost $40,000 to $60,000 per child per year.