Adults with autism are having a harder time accessing health care compared to their typically developing peers, new research suggests. As a group, those on the autism spectrum are reporting more unmet health care needs, greater use of the emergency room and they are less likely to take advantage of preventive services like Pap smears or tetanus shots than others without the disorder. Adults with autism also report being less satisfied with communication from doctors and not as comfortable navigating the health care system, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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