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Researchers call for the term ‘high functioning autism’ to be consigned to history

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Dr Gail Alvares

Researchers call for the term ‘high functioning autism’ to be consigned to history. Autism researchers from the Telethon Kids Institute have called for the term ‘high functioning autism’ to be abandoned because of the misleading and potentially harmful expectations it creates around the abilities of children on the autism spectrum. In research published in the […]

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