KEY POINTS
- The Lancet Commission, a group of 32 stakeholders, recently issued a call to create a new category of "profound autism."
- "Profound autism" describes those who also have intellectual disability, minimal language, and who require 24-hour supervision.
- The Commission expressed concern that this population is "at risk of being marginalized by a focus on more able individuals."
Click here to read the article as posted on the Psychology Today website dated December 7, 2021