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Positive About Autism

Positive About Autism

Chris Barson

Positive About Autism

Positive About Autism

Positive About Autism

Positive About Autism

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Positive About Autism

Positive About Autism

Positive About Autism

“These children are not quickly in and out of services. They’re not the six appointments and discharge kind.”

Clinical director

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“After he set fire to himself, I talked to

the hospital. [He was] admitted by the casualty doctor onto a ward.

The ward wouldn’t accept him because it wasn’t the right person because he didn’t have training in Asperger’s or mental health. So we were put on a ward that was actually closed and left there for hours”

Parent of teenage child

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“Our study sheds light on the need for better guidelines and greater support for incorporating ASD related training of physicians and other healthcare providers who usually report lack of self-perceived competency in treating and diagnosing adults with ASD,”

Rini Vohra of West Virginia University, JADD, March 2016,

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