Autism traits: The importance of "co-morbid" problems for impairment and contact with services. Data from the Bergen Child Study.
Background: Co-occurring problems are common in individuals with clinical autism spectrum disorder (ASD) but their relevance for impairment and contact with health services in ASD is largely unexplored.Aims: We investigated the extent of co-occurring problems in children with high ASD traits from a...
| Publicado en: | Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 72; pp. 275 - 284 |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Jan2018
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