The Vocational and Educational Index: An Update to the Vocational Index to Reflect Contemporary Postsecondary Educational Options for Autistic Adults.
The Vocational Index, a tool to reliably capture the range of vocational and educational activities in which adults with autism engage, is regularly used in studies of adult outcomes in autism. However, recently it has been noted that there are some activities (primarily postsecondary education opti...
| Published in: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 7; pp. 2780 - 2790 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2026
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