Understanding the Social Behaviors of Girls with ASD
Michelle Dean completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment. Her research interests include the social development of children with disabilities at school, school-based intervention services for children with autism in economically disadvantaged communities, and the study of gender differences in the social behaviors of boys and girls with autism.
Autism Acceptance
Sorry an odd question but let me explain.
As some of my more regular readers know that I have a , now, nine year old autistic son and also I spend nearly a decade of my life working in healthcare survey research.
This has given me a huge distrust of any government supplied data. (For lots of reasons, in fact, but tardiness (by our governments) does come into it).
So one of the figures which interested me at the moment are that of gender and autistic diagnosis. The number thrown out a lot is that only 20% of people diagnosed with autism are female.
Is this true?
To find out I have decided to run my own poll on the subject which you can find below.
It would be great if you could take part either on your own behalf or those of a loved one.
Thanks very much in advance.
PS I am aware of the developments in the autistic transgender community and I have tried to cover to some extent in the possible answers. I appreciate such endeavours are quite good enough so I would be grateful if you could share any thoughts you many have regarding definitions of autistic transpeople in the comments section below! Again thanks.