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A National Autistic Society report on "the reality for families" suggests 62% of parents had no choice over the school their children would attend.
Children with autism who are from ethnic minorities face a double discrimination in education, campaigners say.
Parents were much less satisfied with their child's academic and social progress than White British parents.
The government said meeting the needs of autistic children was "a priority".
Parental perceptions are that their children lost out because of the sort of unwitting racism identified in a recent Department for Education and Skills report.
Joan Nelson, whose son is black and has autism, told the society she believed ethnicity had a significant impact on the level and type of education he was given.
"There appeared to be more of a belief that my child was bad as opposed to having special needs," she said.
Black boys were penalised because their special needs meant they had difficulty accessing appropriate education, because they were Black, and because they were boys, she said.
"This hinders them in achieving what they should in today's system."
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