social communication – ASF Weekly Science Podcasts

Can you say strengths and deficits at the same time?


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People tend to go towards a “strengths only” or “weaknesses only” approach to describing autism. But even if you think about a single aspect of autistic challenges – social communication – autistics can show both. How can you measure this, and even more importantly, document it to play to someones strengths while addressing their impairments at the same time? Special guests Dr. Matthew Lerner and Jacquelyn Gates from Stony Brook University explain how this can be done by clinicians.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36573397/

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social communication – ASF Weekly Science PodcastsBy Autism Science Foundation