The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism
Lord, C., Charman, T., Havdahl, A., Carbone, P., Anagnostou, E., Boyd, B., Carr, T., de Vries, P. J., Dissanayake, C., Divan, G., +22 more...Freitag, C. M., Gotelli, M. M., Kasari, C., Knapp, M.
, Mundy, P., Plank, A., Scahill, L., Servili, C., Shattuck, P., Simonoff, E., Singer, A. T., Slonims, V., Wang, P. P., Ysrraelit, M. C., Jellett, R., Pickles, A., Cusack, J., Howlin, P., Szatmari, P., Holbrook, A., Toolan, C. & McCauley, J. B.
(2022).
The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism.
The Lancet,
399(10321), 271-334.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01541-5
, Mundy, P., Plank, A., Scahill, L., Servili, C., Shattuck, P., Simonoff, E., Singer, A. T., Slonims, V., Wang, P. P., Ysrraelit, M. C., Jellett, R., Pickles, A., Cusack, J., Howlin, P., Szatmari, P., Holbrook, A., Toolan, C. & McCauley, J. B.
(2022).
The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism.
The Lancet,
399(10321), 271-334.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01541-5
Affecting about 78 million people worldwide, autism is a condition of global importance because of its prevalence and the degree to which it can affect individuals and families. Autism awareness has grown monumentally in the past 20 years, yet most striking is that much more could be done to improve life outcomes for the highly heterogeneous group of people with autism. Such change will depend on investments in science focused on practical clinical issues, and on social and service systems that acknowledge the potential for change and growth as well as the varied, complex needs of the autistic individuals and their families whose lives could be changed with such an effort.