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Facts and Statistics

The U.S. cost of autism over the lifespan is about $2.4 million for a person with an intellectual disability or $1.4 million for a person without intellectual disability (Buescher et al., 2014) 35 percent of young adults with autism have not had a job or received postgraduate education after leaving high school. (Shatluck et al., 2012) It costs more than $8,600 extra per year to educate a student with autism. (Lavelle et al., 2014) The average cost of educating a student is about $12,000 - NCES. 2014

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