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Medical providers urged to adopt statewide training and standards for autism and IDD care
Summary
Parents, providers and medical educators called for legislation requiring continuing education and statewide standards to reduce emergency department boarding, misdiagnosis, and barriers to routine care for patients with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
A broad coalition of parents, medical students, hospitals and disability advocates told the Joint Committee they support legislation to require continuing education and statewide standards for clinicians treating people with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Mara Sullivan, CEO of The Arc of Massachusetts and a parent of two sons with autism, said too few clinicians feel competent to treat these patients: “A recent survey found that 60 percent of…
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