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Relatively Few Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Receive

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ScienceDaily — Use of medical, mental

health and case management services for young adults with an autism

spectrum disorder appears to decline after high school, according to a

report in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent

Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

"The number of young adults in the

United States diagnosed as having an autism spectrum disorder is

increasing rapidly as ever-larger cohorts of children identified as

having an autism spectrum disorder age through adolescence," according

to background information in the article. "Regardless of the root

cause, the facts remain that treated prevalence is increasing and that

the implications of this trend for service systems are poorly

understood."

T. Shattuck, Ph.D., of Washington

University, St. Louis, and colleagues analyzed data from a nationally

representative telephone questionnaire surveying parents and guardians

of young adults between the ages of 19 and 23 years with an autism

spectrum disorder. Surveys were conducted from April 2007 to February

2008.

Overall rates of service use ranged from

9.1 percent for speech therapy to 41.9 percent for case management.

Other services utilized included medical services (23.5 percent) and

mental health services (35 percent). About two-fifths of youths (39.1

percent) had not received any of these services. These rates are lower

than estimates gathered six years earlier when all patients were still

in high school. During that time, 46.2 percent

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