Optimal outcome (and autism) by any other name

In my annual review of all things autism research covered on this blog, the accolade of paper of the year for 2013 went to [drum roll maest...

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Stability and trajectories in childhood autism

A quote to begin this post taken from the paper by Patricia Towle and colleagues *: " approximately 20% no longer had ASD diagnoses ...

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Autism and the [changing] preschool developmental profile

I'd like to begin with a quote from the paper by Hedvall and colleagues * who reported findings based on a study of developmental trajec...

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