Glenn N. Saxe
Director of the The Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center
New York University
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The urgent need to shorten autism’s diagnostic odyssey
With the rate of autism now at 1 in 68 people and climbing, the need for solutions that reach the risk population more quickly and effectively has never been more real, say Dennis Wall and Glenn Saxe.
The urgent need to shorten autism’s diagnostic odyssey
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