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Services for adults with an autism spectrum disorder

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Paul Shattuck is one of those people I greatly admire. He and his group ask important questions in areas which are generally given low levels of attention. Regular readers to Left Brain/Right Brain will (I hope) recognize that improving the research base for knowledge about autistic adults is a high priority of mine. I can’t [...]

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Mayo Clinic to study adult prevalence and outcomes

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

A five year project was started this year to investigate the epidemiology and current status of adults in the U.S.. At present we have almost no data on adult outcomes. We have little data using on adult prevalence. Studies from the U.K. have reported a prevalence about 1.1% for autistic adults “...with learning disabilities living [...]

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Severe Influenza Among Children and Young Adults with Neurologic and Neurodevelopmental Conditions — Ohio, 2011

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Children with neurologic and neurodevelopmental conditions are at increased risk for severe outcomes from influenza, including death. Those aren’t my words. They are the first sentence in a new report by the CDC: Severe Influenza Among Children and Young Adults with Neurologic and Neurodevelopmental Conditions — Ohio, 2011. Individuals with developmental disabilities are at a [...]

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Estimating the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions in Adults: Extending the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

You may recall that a couple of years ago a study came out looking at the prevalence of autism in adults in the United Kingdom. They found a prevalence of about 1%, the same as in children. There’s now a follow up study. The press release is below. The study can be found here. I [...]

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