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Handbook of Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Assessment can serve a variety of purposes in the area of autism. Among these are surveillance, screening, diagnosis, ongoing monitoring, and identifying areas for intervention. The focus of this chapter will be on reviewing each of these topics and discussing specific strategies and implications of these issues for enhancing service and care.

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  1. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Lauren Gardner, Tera Bradley & Laura Murphy

  2. KishHealth System, DeKalb, IL, USA

    Karyn Erkfritz-Gay

  3. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Jonathon M. Campbell

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Gardner, L., Erkfritz-Gay, K., Campbell, J.M., Bradley, T., Murphy, L. (2016). Purposes of Assessment. In: Matson, J.L. (eds) Handbook of Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27171-2_3

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