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Is This Autism?: A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else (1st edition.)

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Discusses how awareness of autism has evolved, beginning with a relatively homogenous group of patients with obvious symptoms and increasingly including a wider range of patients with less obvious symptoms and less need for support
Reviews the DSM and ICD diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder, teaching clinicians what each criterion encompasses, particularly in individuals who are less obviously autistic
Describes traits and challenges that are not part of the formal diagnostic criteria, but which commonly co-occur in autistic individuals with less obvious traits
Includes reflections from those with subtle autism who struggled to be diagnosed

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Product Details
Routledge
1000887448 / 9781000887440
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
05/06/2023
England
English
292 pages
Copy: 30%; print: 30%
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