Research Seminar - Service Receipt for Individuals with Autism across Canada: Findings from a Canadian National Survey by Jonathan Lai
聽Caregivers face various challenges navigating the service sectors for their children with autism across the lifespan, leading to a high level of burden and distress in families. For example, the early developmental period is a sensitive window for clinical outcomes; however, it is not known how access to early intervention relates to receiving other services later as the child ages. Further, there is pressing need to understand the dynamics of service utilization through the emerging adulthood period for these children after leaving secondary school. In this presentation, various sociodemographic, clinical and systemic factors will be explored as mediators of service access in children and emerging adults using data from a pan-Canadian survey completed by 3251 caregivers reporting on 3317 family members with autism. Results and discussion of relevant factors including intellectual disability status and contextual factors (such as being in school or work) on how services are accessed will take place.
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