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The government has been urged to stop using personality tests to recruit civil servants, with autism charities slamming them as “one of the biggest barriers” for autistic people seeking jobs. It comes ...

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But to meet the diagnostic definition of autism, the symptoms must cause significant impairment, said Dr. Arthur Westover, a psychiatrist who specializes in autism at the University of Texas ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) is developing technology that could change the way autism is detected in young children. This new medical device is based on a prototype ...