Would you Treat a Broken Tooth with Abilify? - Dr. Susanna Mierau - Autism Healthcare Equity

September 11, 2024
Topic: Would You Treat a Broken Tooth with Abilify?
Speaker: Dr. Susanna Mierau

The talk focuses on the challenges limited verbal or non-verbal adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face getting access to medical care and strategies for addressing these needs in our community. A recent study of over 1500 adults with ASD in the Kaiser medical system revealed that nearly all medical conditions are more common in people with ASD than age- and sex-matched controls (Croen et al., 2015). Yet limited verbal or nonspeaking adults with ASD can have difficulty getting the standard of care even for common conditions in adult medical facilities. Dr. Mierau will discuss these challenges and strategies for providing adult services to this highly vulnerable patient population. This talk will focus on using a neurology lens to understand more about the brain areas that can be affected in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and how this alters communication styles.

Moderated by Jackie Kancir, NCSA

National Council on Severe Autism - NCSAautism.org