Punit Shah is associate professor of psychology at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.
Punit Shah
Associate professor
University of Bath
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The U.K. clinical guidelines used to screen for autism contain an error, which may have resulted in many delayed or missed diagnoses over the past decade.
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24 March 2021 | 3 min read
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