Significant delays in ASD diagnosis and treatment

'Heartbreaking' delays in autism diagnosis and treatment got even worse during pandemic Despite increased public awareness, research advances, and wider insurance coverage for autism therapies, children often wait months — in some cases more than a year — to get an autism diagnosis and begin intervention services. www.cnn.com Yep- I'm currently booking assessments in Feb. 2023. I struggle to see why there is such a lack of psychologists who do this. As a sustainable business, purely doing ASD evals only became viable less than a decade ago, so there's that. I recognize my biases, butbi find it to be a really fun job which includes blowing bubbles, flipping rubber duckies in the air, and playing with play doh as a regular... Read more
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