Clinical Pathways and Tools for Optimizing Care and Outcomes for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
This guide is intended for clinical use by licensed professionals.
Many children with ASD also have co-occurring conditions that complicate the care they receive. According to a survey from the Autism Speaks Autism Care Network (ACNet), co-occurring ADHD, anxiety and irritability are most likely to contribute to interfering behaviors that can greatly affect quality of life when left unmanaged.
Given the high prevalence and impact of interfering behaviors in children with autism, the ACNet has developed a series of Clinical Pathways and quality improvement tools to improve screening, diagnosis and treatment for anxiety, ADHD and irritability in autism. These Clinical Pathways have already been implemented at ACNet sites and are now being made available to healthcare providers outside the Network.
NOTE: The Clinical Pathways were developed to support care delivery for children with mild to moderate autism.
The goals of this package are:
- To promote the use of up-to-date, evidence-informed practices
- To translate available evidence and best-known practices into daily clinical processes of care
- To ensure all patients reliably receive a high standard of care no matter where they receive services
- To share tools for assessing adherence to the Clinical Pathways and common approaches from ACNet sites for improving Clinical Pathway adherence
In this package, providers will find guidance on:
- Surveillance and screening
- Diagnosis and treatment for co-occurring ASD and:
- ADHD
- Anxiety
- Irritability
- Pathway implementation and adherence
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