Flinders University Study Aims to Improve Diagnosis of Adult Autism

9/17/2012 7:49:49 AM

Developing better tools to diagnose autism in adulthood is among the key aims of a new study by Flinders University PhD candidate Clare Holmes. The School of Psychology graduate has just begun a four-year thesis to improve understanding of autism characteristics later in life, and how these behaviours differ from childhood, with the wider aim of developing new adult-specific diagnostic tools. While autism is predominantly diagnosed in early childhood, Ms Holmes said anecdotal evidence showed a growing number of people were being diagnosed in adulthood.

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