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Early Diagnosis And Intervention For Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder In New York State, Grace Ester Caroline Korompis Jan 2017

Early Diagnosis And Intervention For Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder In New York State, Grace Ester Caroline Korompis

Health Policy, Management & Behavior Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), analyzed the trends, assessed children’s sociodemographic characteristics and examined timing of ASD diagnosis among children who enrolled in the New York State Early Intervention Program (NYSEIP).

Secondary data from the New York State Early Intervention data systems were used. The systems include NYEIS (New York State Early Intervention System), a centralized web-based system that electronically manages the NYSEIP administrative tasks and was designed to support the NYSEIP's services, and the legacy data system: KIDS (Kids Integrated Data System). The time-trend design employed in this study was a form of longitudinal …