Corny to Attend Autism Walk
Published on September 17, 2009 under Frontier League (FL)
Normal CornBelters News Release
Corny, the Normal Cornbelters mascot, will be at the annual Autism walk at Tipton Park on Saturday, September 19th at 8:30am. Corny will be on hand to meet and greet the participants and encourage them on. Autism of McLean County is celebrating their 7th year of existence. The incidence of autism is increasing at an alarming rate. Just over a decade ago, it was estimated that autism affected one out of 10,000 children. In April of 2002, the United States Congress declared autism a national epidemic. In January of 2004, the CDC, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics, estimated that one in 166 children are currently being diagnosed with autism. CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network released data in 2007 that found about 1 in 150 8-year-old children in multiple areas of the United States had ASD. To learn about Autism or how you can help, please go to the website at http://www.autismmclean.org/
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