Autism and diagnostic substitution: evidence from a study of adults with a history of developmental language disorder

Rates of diagnosis of autism have risen since 1980, raising the question of whether some children who previously had other diagnoses are now being diagnosed with autism. We applied contemporary diagnostic criteria for autism to adults with a history of developmental language disorder, to discover wh...

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Main Authors: Bishop, D, Whitehouse, A, Watt, H, Line, E
Other Authors: Mac Keith Press
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008
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