The reviewed evidence suggests health professionals’ limited knowledge and self-efficacy in working with autistic people is a challenge to the provision of healthcare for autistic individuals.
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The reviewed evidence suggests health professionals’ limited knowledge and self-efficacy in working with autistic people is a challenge to the provision of healthcare for autistic individuals.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- The Dual Process Theory of Autism: A Narrative Review (2025) · doi
Some studies report that autistic individuals demonstrate superiority in logical consistency and produce fewer intuitive responses, whereas others have failed to confirm these differences or have presented contradictory findings.
Keywords: report autistic individuals demonstrate superiority logical consistency produce fewer intuitive responses others failed confirm differences - Assessing Behavioral Flexibility in Individuals With Developmental Disabilities (2006) · doi
Researchers associate an insistence on sameness or lack of behavioral flexibility With autism and Asperger syndrome, but feW studies have sought to identify specific situations in Which individuals insist on sameness.
Keywords: sameness researchers associate insistence lack behavioral flexibility autism asperger syndrome sought identify specific situations individuals - A Systematic Review of Healthcare Professionals’ Knowledge, Self-Efficacy and Attitudes Towards Working with Autistic People (2021) · doi
The reviewed evidence suggests health professionals’ limited knowledge and self-efficacy in working with autistic people is a challenge to the provision of healthcare for autistic individuals.
Keywords: autistic reviewed evidence suggests health professionals limited knowledge self efficacy working people challenge provision healthcare
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