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People are people: Cross-country similarities in parents’ perceptions of ASD service provision for their child with ASD

Phil Reed Orcid Logo, Kaneez Mustary, Isabel Kiari, Joachim Nyoni, Lisa A. Osborne

Neurodiversity, Volume: 2

Swansea University Author: Phil Reed Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/27546330241278601

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The current report provided some indicators of comparative perceptions of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) provision across five diverse countries (Bangladesh, Greece, Kenya, the United Kingdom and Zambia) in terms of parent perceptions of ASD and its diagnosis, school provision, and predictors of sat...

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Published in: Neurodiversity
ISSN: 2754-6330 2754-6330
Published: SAGE Publications 2024
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67365
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Abstract: The current report provided some indicators of comparative perceptions of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) provision across five diverse countries (Bangladesh, Greece, Kenya, the United Kingdom and Zambia) in terms of parent perceptions of ASD and its diagnosis, school provision, and predictors of satisfaction of school provision. It was hoped that the use of a single procedure to collect such data would provide needed information from low-to-middle-income countries, in comparison to the better studied higher-income countries. Two hundred parents of children diagnosed with ASD (40 in each country) completed a series of scales about the ASD characteristics and school provision. The results suggested more similarities than differences, with key concerns being the lack of support on offer from authorities, and the quality of the provision provided, irrespective of how that provision was provided. There were some differences between the countries in terms of speed of diagnosis, and the factors relating to those could be interestingly explored in terms of social and religious attitudes to disability.
Keywords: ASD characteristics; school provision; cross-country
College: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Funders: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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