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COVID-19 Pandemic and Impact on Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The COVID-19 infectious disease pandemic has caused significant fear and uncertainty around the world and had significant adverse psychological impact. Children, adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are a particularly vulnerable population, impacted by stay-at-home orders, clos...

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Autores principales: Baweja, Raman, Brown, Sierra L., Edwards, Erin M., Murray, Michael J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7943706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33689088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04950-9
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description The COVID-19 infectious disease pandemic has caused significant fear and uncertainty around the world and had significant adverse psychological impact. Children, adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are a particularly vulnerable population, impacted by stay-at-home orders, closures at nonessential services, and social distancing standards. This commentary describes various challenges faced by individuals with ASD in the United States including disruptions caused by educational and vocational changes, challenges to home and leisure routines, limited access to behavioral health services and changes in health services delivery due to the pandemic. We highlight the need for ongoing skills development for individuals and development within systems to better respond to needs of the ASD population in future emergencies.
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spelling pubmed-79437062021-03-10 COVID-19 Pandemic and Impact on Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder Baweja, Raman Brown, Sierra L. Edwards, Erin M. Murray, Michael J. J Autism Dev Disord Commentary The COVID-19 infectious disease pandemic has caused significant fear and uncertainty around the world and had significant adverse psychological impact. Children, adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are a particularly vulnerable population, impacted by stay-at-home orders, closures at nonessential services, and social distancing standards. This commentary describes various challenges faced by individuals with ASD in the United States including disruptions caused by educational and vocational changes, challenges to home and leisure routines, limited access to behavioral health services and changes in health services delivery due to the pandemic. We highlight the need for ongoing skills development for individuals and development within systems to better respond to needs of the ASD population in future emergencies. Springer US 2021-03-10 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC7943706/ /pubmed/33689088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04950-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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