Few diagnoses have broadened their diagnostic boundaries as much or as quickly as autism. This has affected those with the ...
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A key autism panel that was dramatically reshaped by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is recommending that the federal government embrace the term “profound autism,” ...
Advocates for those with profound autism say that a committee tasked with guiding the federal government’s strategy on the developmental disability is largely ignoring the needs of this population. A ...
Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...
The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive. The effort to divide ...
People with intellectual disability only have their disability noted by hospital staff in one in every five hospital admissions, our new study shows. Recognising someone has a disability is critical ...
Waiting lists for children with an intellectual disability to be referred to the HSE’s child mental health services almost ...