When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. This guideline was previously called autism: recognition, referral, diagnosis and management of adults on the autism spectrum.

For more information, see the surveillance decision. We will regularly review their potential impact on our autism guidelines. We are monitoring important initiatives in progress that may affect future service delivery. June 2021: We have found no new evidence that affects the recommendations. Adults with autism and their families, partners and carers.Health and social care professionals (including those in the independent sector).assessment and interventions for families, partners and carers.

interventions for coexisting mental disorders.

interventions for behaviour that challenges.

This guideline includes recommendations on: In June 2021, we amended the recommendations on identification and assessment to clarify that when the Autism-Spectrum Quotient – 10 items (AQ-10) is used to assess for possible autism, the score at which the person should be offered a comprehensive assessment is 6 or above. We have also produced guidelines on autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: recognition, referral and diagnosis and autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: support and management. It aims to improve access and engagement with interventions and services, and the experience of care, for people with autism. The different cluster solutions will be discussed with a view to the new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, for following studies a further specification of some of the ASDS and FSK items could be helpful.Īsperger’s Disorder Autism Spectrum Disorder Autismus-Spektrums-Storung ,Asperger-Syndrom Clusternanalyse DSM-5 cluster analysis.This guideline covers diagnosing and managing suspected or confirmed autism spectrum disorder (autism, Asperger’s syndrome and atypical autism) in people aged 18 and over. In the three-cluster solution of the FSK, the 'autistic cluster' of the two-cluster solution differentiated in a subgroup with mainly social-communicative problems (cluster 1) and a second subgroup described by restrictive, repetitive behavior. The children of the second cluster ('communication problems', 35%) were only described by social-communicative problems, and the third group did not show any problems (38%). Within the three-cluster solution of the ASDS, sensory hypersensitivity, cleaving to routines and social-communicative problems generated an 'autistic' subgroup (22%). In the two-cluster solution of both rating scales, mainly the problems in social communication grouped the children into a cluster 'with communication problems' (51 % and 41 %), and a cluster 'without communication problems'. Based on two Autism-rating-scales (ASDS and FSK), an exploratory two-step cluster analysis was conducted with N=103 children (age: 5-18) seen in our social-pediatric health care centre to examine potentially autistic symptoms. With regard to a patient-oriented and expedient advising therapy planning, however, the issue of an empirically reproducible and clinically feasible differentiation into subgroups must still be raised. Within the new DSM-5, the currently differentiated subgroups of 'Autistic Disorder' (299.0), 'Asperger's Disorder' (299.80) and 'Pervasive Developmental Disorder' (299.80) are replaced by the more general 'Autism Spectrum Disorder'.

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