Major Autism Study Focuses On Adults

// September 30th, 2009 // News That Affects You

The first ever major study into adults living with autism was published 22nd September by the NHS Information Centre. The report, entitled ‘Autism Spectrum Disorders in adults living in households throughout England 2007′ was written by Professor Terry Brugha, a Consultant Psychiatrist with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Leicester with a team of UK researchers This ground-breaking study shows for the first time an estimate of how many adults are living with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in England. The study into the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders among adults shows that one in every hundred adults living in households has the condition – broadly the same rate as that cited for children.

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