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Profound Autism Information Gathering - Clinician

Please complete this survey if your organization provides services to individuals with profound autism as described below:
  • Meets the diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder;
  • Is at least 8 years old acknowledging that some characteristics consistent with profound autism are evident earlier;
  • Requires adult supervision exceeding age appropriate levels to ensure physical and mental health, safety, and well-being (due to risks such as elopement, injury, or lack of environment awareness);
  • Demonstrates adaptive functioning skills significantly below age level with an inability to independently perform most activities of daily living (e.g. bathing, food preparation, dressing)
  • Severely impaired cognitive abilities reflected by IQ under 50 and/or does not verbally communicate other than single words or fixed phrases and communicates predominately only to have their basic needs met;
  • Characteristics are neither intermittent nor transient and persist across different environment settings and situations
1.Select any applicable credential that you hold(Required.)
2.Approximately what percentage of the clients you currently serve have profound autism and are at least 8 years old?(Required.)
3.If you would like to serve more people with profound autism, what barriers prevent you from doing so? Select all that apply.(Required.)
4.Do you feel that your education and training effectively prepared you to serve clients with profound autism?(Required.)
5.If you had excellent training and/or education on profound autism, what made it excellent (specific places, people, text books, trainings, etc.)?
6.Do you have suggestions about how the above examples can be replicated and shared?
7.Do you have success stories on how you have advocated and secured reimbursement rates or funding to serve this population?
8.Do you have any examples of successful strategies for hiring and retention for staff serving this population?
9.How do you personally combat burnout, compassion fatigue, and other stressors related to serving the profound autism population?
Thank you!