April is recognized as National Autism Awareness Month. Autism is a mental condition present for early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communication and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts.
Autism statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identify around 1 in 68 American children as on the autism spectrum- a ten fold increase in prevalence over the last 40 years.
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