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"El País Semanal" publishes a report on autism with the collaboration of Dr. Amaia Hervás

Last Sunday, September 24, the supplement "El Pais Semanal" that every Sunday accompanies the newspaper "El País", published an in-depth report on autism spectrum disorder under the title "Autism and I". It is a chronicle of 13 pages with multiple real testimonies about the struggle to overcome social incomprehension and stereotypes associated with this disease during which Dr. Amaia Hervás makes some contributions.


In this sense, Dr. Hervás talks about the misdiagnoses that people with autism have with good intellectual abilities or that often drag people with autism to the wrong intensive medication. And it also warns about the great deficiencies and the need of resources that the autistic adult population in particular and for that reason exposes the need to try to prepare to the maximum the children with autism so that the day to day they can be autonomous and the dependence towards their parents is the minimum.

Read the report Autism and I