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Assessing Adults with Normal Intelligence for ASD

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Comprehensive Guide to Autism

Abstract

Some people with autism spectrum disorder will enter adulthood without being properly diagnosed, sometimes because of high intelligence and good coping strategies, sometimes because the disorder was concealed by, or even mistaken for, another psychiatric disorder. In the diagnostic assessment, rating scales and structured instrument can assist the clinician in the investigation. However, only a few instruments available today were originally developed for adults; most of them were tailored for assessing children. This chapter describes instruments that can be useful in the diagnostic assessment of adults and obstacles that the clinician can encounter in this undertaking.

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  1. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jonna M. Eriksson & Susanne Bejerot

  2. Northern Stockholm Psychiatry, St Göran Hospital, 112 81, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lisa M. J. Andersen

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  1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Westminster, Faculty of Science & Technology, London, United Kingdom

    Vinood B. Patel

  2. Nutritional Sciences Division and Genomics Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

    Victor R. Preedy

  3. Faculty of Society and Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Middlesex, United Kingdom

    Colin R. Martin

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Eriksson, J.M., Andersen, L.M.J., Bejerot, S. (2014). Assessing Adults with Normal Intelligence for ASD. In: Patel, V., Preedy, V., Martin, C. (eds) Comprehensive Guide to Autism. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4788-7_177

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