The incidence of autism is increasing dramatically and one in every 68 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
It's precious time lost, because the earlier autism is detected, the better the outcome.
Jim and Kim Derk brought one child apiece into their marriage before deciding to adopt just one more.
Kim says, "we ended up going through a lot of - we believe divine intervention -- we had a lot of help and we ended up identifying a sibling group over in Hungary and so what we thought we were coming back with one child, we actually came back with four the first time."
They went back two more times for two more kids from the same sibling group. The Derks call them their Hungarian six pack.
Kim says, "probably about six months in we were seeing a level of tempers and a level of aggression and a lot of things going on."
Those "things" eventually led to four of the children being diagnosed with autism.
19-year-old Willie got the first diagnosis when he was in first or second grade.
"It was a situation where we were told that if you are going to get help for your son, you have to move out of town," says Kim. "You have to leave Evansville because you can't get anything he needs here."
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