A conceptual framework for understanding the cultural and contextual factors on autism across the globe

A de Leeuw, F Happé, RA Hoekstra - Autism Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Autism research is heavily skewed toward western high‐income countries. Culturally
appropriate screening and diagnostic instruments for autism are lacking in most low‐and …

Autism disparities: A systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative research

JS Singh, G Bunyak - Qualitative health research, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities associated with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) are evident across many service domains including access to early assessment …

Evidence-informed milestones for developmental surveillance tools

JM Zubler, LD Wiggins, MM Macias, TM Whitaker… - …, 2022 - publications.aap.org
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Learn the Signs. Act Early.
program, funded the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to convene an expert working …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and characteristics of autism spectrum disorder among children aged 8 years—autism and developmental disabilities monitoring network, 11 sites …

DL Christensen - MMWR. Surveillance summaries, 2016 - cdc.gov
Results: For 2012, the combined estimated prevalence of ASD among the 11 ADDM
Network sites was 14.6 per 1,000 (one in 68) children aged 8 years. Estimated prevalence …

Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions

PL Morgan, G Farkas, MM Hillemeier… - Educational …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigated whether minority children attending US elementary and middle schools are
disproportionately represented in special education. We did so using hazard modeling of …

Caregiver voices: Cross-cultural input on improving access to autism services

AC Stahmer, S Vejnoska, S Iadarola, D Straiton… - Journal of racial and …, 2019 - Springer
Decades of research have established that racial ethnic minority, low-income, and/or non-
English speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are diagnosed later than …

A meta-synthesis on parenting a child with autism

KL Ooi, YS Ong, SA Jacob, TM Khan - … disease and treatment, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background The lifelong nature of autism in a child has deep implications on parents as they
are faced with a range of challenges and emotional consequences in raising the child. The …

Disparities in diagnosis and treatment of autism in Latino and non-Latino white families

KE Zuckerman, OJ Lindly, NM Reyes, AE Chavez… - …, 2017 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES: To compare barriers to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis and current
ASD-related service use among non-Latino white (NLW) families and Latino families with …

Replicated evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in disability identification in US schools

PL Morgan, G Farkas, MM Hillemeier… - Educational …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Federal legislation and policy increasingly seek to address minority overrepresentation in
special education due to concerns that US schools are misidentifying children as disabled …

Disparities in documented diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder based on demographic, individual, and service factors

LD Wiggins, M Durkin, A Esler, LC Lee… - Autism …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The objectives of our study were to (a) report how many children met an autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) surveillance definition but had no clinical diagnosis of ASD in health or …