This clinical guideline offers best practice advice on the care of children and young people with autism.
Autism is used in the guideline to refer to autism spectrum disorder, autistic spectrum condition and Asperger’s syndrome.
Key priorities for implementation
- Access to health and social care services
- Knowledge and competence of health and social care professionals
- Making adjustments to the social and physical environment and processes of care
- Psychosocial interventions
- Anticipating and preventing behaviour that challenges
- Psychosocial interventions for behaviour that challenges
- Pharmacological interventions for behaviour that challenges
- Families and carers
- Transition to adult services
Download
- Autism: The management and support of children and young people on the autism spectrum (NICE clinical guideline 170)
- Baseline assessment tool
- Costing statement
- NICE care pathway: autism
- Autism: recognition, referral and diagnosis of children and young people on the autism spectrum (NICE clinical guideline 128)
- Autism: recognition, referral, diagnosis and management of adults on the autism spectrum (NICE clinical guideline 142)