Britain to count adults with autism
May 9th, 2008From the BBC:
For the first time, Britain will conduct a census of adults with autism in order to better support them. In announcing the £500,000 project, Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis said adults with autism are too often abandoned by health and social services.
“We still don’t know enough about autism, but we do know that left unsupported, it can have a devastating impact on those who have the condition and their families, ” he said. “One of the key gaps in our knowledge is simple - we don’t know how many people have the condition in any given area.”
The group has been hard to measure partly because so many people have grown up before improvements in recognition and diagnosis; and some may have been labelled inappropriately as having mental health problems or learning difficulties or not acknowledged at all.
The National Autistic Society was enthusiastic about the effort.
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May 9th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I wonder how long it will take to complete? Or rather when they’ll get around to publishing the results?
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