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How to Ease Anxiety for Adults with Autism during a Doctor’s Visit
Improve challenging primary health care encounters
This article describes what helps and hurts doctors’ experience for adults with autism, which also includes a real life story of a young adult on the spectrum. There is a newly funded research study by Occupational Therapist, Leigh Stein Duker. The goal of this study is to improve challenging primary health encounters of adults with autism.
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- Newly funded study aims to improve challenging primary health care encounters
- What helps and hurts the office experience
- Awareness and acceptance
- What about Bobby?
This resource created by USC News