Improving Access to Autism Evaluation: A Coordinated Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology Diagnostic Pathway.

A shortage of board-certified developmental-behavioral pediatricians generates a bottleneck for children and families who seek autism diagnostic services. Wait time for autism evaluation commonly exceeds a year. To improve access, clinicians developed a coordinated Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology autism diagnostic pathway.

Potential communicative acts in children with autism spectrum disorders.

Objective: To describe potential communicative acts in a sample of 17 children with autism spectrum disorders who produced few to no intelligible words (mean age = 32.82 months).

Methods: Parents reported on children's potential communicative acts for 10 different communicative functions.