{"id":489,"date":"2012-06-15T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2020-12-09T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:35:35","slug":"the-siouxland-impact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/faq\/the-siouxland-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"The Siouxland Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Siouxland Metro<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Includes Woodbury, Union, Dakota, &amp; Dixon Counties)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>165,000 residents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Economic Costs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2005, the average annual medical costs for Medicaid-enrolled children with an ASD were $10,709 per child, which was about six times higher than costs for children without an ASD ($1,812).<\/li>\n<li>In addition to medical costs, intensive behavioral interventions for children with ASDs cost $40,000 to $60,000 per child per year.<\/li>\n<li>Nationally autism is thought to cost $137 billion annually<\/li>\n<li>It is estimated that the per capita lifetime costs of Autism are between $2 and $4 million but that early intensive ABA services, like those conducted by the Pier Center for Autism, can have a lifetime savings of $1.6 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Services in Siouxland<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We estimate 2000 individuals in the Siouxland would qualify for an ASD diagnosis. \u00a0This does not include the family members and friends whose lives are impacted due to ASD.<\/li>\n<li>The Pier Center for Autism is dedicated to providing access to center-based compassionate care for individuals with ASD and their families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\" align=\"center\">Siouxland Numbers from www.siouxlandchamber.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Economic Costs from cdc.gov &amp; autismspeaks.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siouxland Metro\u00a0(Includes Woodbury, Union, Dakota, &amp; Dixon Counties) 165,000 residents Economic Costs In 2005, the average annual medical costs for Medicaid-enrolled children with an ASD were $10,709 per child, which was about six times higher than costs for children without an ASD ($1,812). In addition to medical costs, intensive behavioral interventions for children with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/faq\/the-siouxland-impact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Siouxland Impact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":156,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions\/1676"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piercenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}