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When Autism Diagnoses Fade: Early Intervention and Milder Symptoms Mark Children Who Lose the Label

For decades, autism spectrum disorder was considered a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, a diagnosis that once given ...
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Navigating an autism diagnosis: How parents can reclaim their future and find hope

An autism diagnosis changes a family’s life instantly. Parents often feel vulnerable, lost, and afraid of the future. The ...
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Repetitive behaviors and special interests are more indicative of an autism diagnosis than a lack of social skills

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used ...
Forbes

Would A New Diagnosis Of Profound Autism Help Autistic People?

The autism advocacy community is split over whether adding a profound autism subtype will help the most vulnerable autistic people. Since 2013 autism diagnoses have been classified under one ...
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Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That.

Dr. Frances is a psychiatrist. He led the American Psychiatric Association’s task force charged with creating the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. See ...