Press communications: UConn Today - A Better Approach to Diagnosing Autism

2014

Mary Beth Bruder
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860-679-1500

As the number of children with autism increases nationwide, the need for effective and consistent clinical diagnosis is growing. A statewide committee recently published new guidelines designed to ensure health professionals, educators, parents, and all involved in diagnosing a child with autism are using proven and consistent practices. The guidelines stress, among other things, that effective autism diagnosis and treatment requires a collaborative approach. Mary Beth Bruder, a professor in UConns Neag School of Education and in the UConn School of Medicine, was co-chair of the committee, which spent four years developing the Connecticut Guidelines for a Clinical Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Diagnosing autism doesnt require a snapshot, it requires a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the child, says Bruder, who heads a doctoral program in early childhood intervention in the Department of Educational Psychology and is director of UConns A.J. Pappanikou Center

autism, diagnosis

Press communications

Professionals, Students

http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2013/12/a-better-approach-to-diagnosing-autism/?utm_source=DailyDigest%20

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