Autism with a Focus on the 2022 Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Report

Learning Objectives Describe systemic challenges facing autistic people and their families, identified in a recent report by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences aimed at guiding a National Autism Strategy Describe evidence-based strategies to improve access to autism diagnosis, and some of the hurdles yet to overcome List reasons to emphasize both a social model as well as medical model of autism in the training of health care practitioners Presented by Lonnie Zwaigenbaum