Effective early intervention approaches: • Are of needs-based intensity and duration, • Are provided with fidelity by skilled service providers in and across multiple community settings, • Promote family participation and integration into daily life, and • Are accompanied by continuous and rigorous evaluation of child- and family-oriented outcomes. [...] Implementing health and education transition policies and practices may help manage and prevent mental and physical health challenges and promote better adult outcomes. [...] Strategies to improve future autism research include: • Balancing research across multiple areas and disciplines of research, including clinical, systems, biological, and social sciences, • Alignment to the priorities and needs of Autistic people and their families, • Recruiting diverse Autistic collaborators, researchers, and participants, • Longitudinal designs about changes over the lifespan, •. [...] Autism acceptance involves: • Developing an understanding of Autistic people’s ways of being, thinking and doing, and recognizing those ways as valid, and • Accepting and embracing Autistic people’s differences in all aspects of society. [...] Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Autism in Canada • Summary Report 10 Neuro-affirming An approach to interacting with Autistic and other neurodiverse individuals that: • Accepts, understands, values, and celebrates neurodiversity, and • Does not try to fix different ways of thinking and being, or consider those differences to be illnesses.
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