Thinking globally to meet local needs: autism spectrum disorders in Africa and other low-resource environments

Current Opinion in Neurology
Petrus J de Vries

Abstract

Most people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) live in low and middle-income countries, yet almost everything we know about ASD comes from high-income countries. Here we review recent research from Africa, with some references to research in other low-resource environments. We examine publications on screening and diagnosis, intervention, clinical presentation of ASD, cultural perspectives, and neuroscience and technology. Open-access screening and diagnostic tools represent a positive, but nontrivial, future goal. Recent efforts at 'low intensity' community-based interventions are encouraging, but many significant scalability challenges remain. Proposals that ASD in Africa is more severe and overrepresented in high socioeconomic families are likely to be attributable to ascertainment biases and the absence of standardized phenotyping tools. Cultural perspectives and innovative use of technology and neuroscience have the potential to generate novel strategies of global relevance, but research priorities have to be determined by local needs. To have a real impact on clinical services, training, and research in local communities, clinician-scientists should start by thinking globally. ASD research in Africa and other low-resou...Continue Reading

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Mar 8, 2017·Autism Research : Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research·Lauren FranzPetrus J de Vries
Apr 5, 2017·Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders·Liezl SchlebuschAlecia E Samuels
Mar 23, 2018·Acta Neuropsychiatrica·Ayman AlhazmiKirsten A Donald
Mar 30, 2018·Autism : the International Journal of Research and Practice·John-Joe Dawson-SquibbPetrus J de Vries
Sep 16, 2017·Autism : the International Journal of Research and Practice·Jessy GulerLauren Franz
Oct 23, 2018·Autism Research : Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research·Nola J ChambersAmy M Wetherby
Apr 27, 2019·Autism Research : Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research·David G AmaralAndrew Whitehouse
May 3, 2019·Autism : the International Journal of Research and Practice·Marisa ViljoenPetrus J de Vries
Feb 23, 2020·Autism Research : Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research·Anne de LeeuwRosa A Hoekstra
Jul 29, 2020·Autism : the International Journal of Research and Practice·John-Joe Dawson-Squibb, Petrus J de Vries
Aug 31, 2020·Autism : the International Journal of Research and Practice·Marisa ViljoenPetrus J de Vries
Jan 18, 2020·Nature Reviews. Disease Primers·Catherine LordJeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele
Jul 17, 2016·Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology·Petrus J de Vries, Sven Bölte
May 30, 2019·Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders·Tamara Chansa-KabaliHenry Mwanza
Feb 25, 2021·Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders·Nicole E RosenFred R Volkmar
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Mar 27, 2021·Pediatric Research·Natasha Malik-SoniThomas W Frazier
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Aug 23, 2021·Current Opinion in Psychiatry·Simphiwe R N Simelane, Petrus J de Vries
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