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PART I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND; 1 History and development of the concept of autism; 2 Awareness of autism in adulthood; 3 Development of behaviour and functioning (with hindsight); 4 Autism as a lived experience; PART II. THE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC PATHWAY; 5 Obtaining an assessment; 6 Initial assessment (’Triage’); 7 Full assessment: the developmental history; 8 Full assessment: interviewing the patient and autistic phenomenology; 9 Full assessment: direct observation and the signs of autism; 10 Comorbidity assessment; 11 Detailed needs assessment; PART III. CARE AND INTERVENTION AFTER DIAGNOSIS; 12 Approaches to treatment and care; 13 Social Care, the personal passport and reasonable adjustments; 14 Caring communities and caring societies; 15 Choices in life and the awareness, knowledge and skills to support them; References; Appendices; 1 Epidemiology Methods; 2 The author’s experiences in epidemiology and in policy development; 3 Development of a new approach to interviewing adults about their experiences of autism based on the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (Chapter 8); 4 Independent evaluation of the ADOS in community populations; Index

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