{"id":6419,"date":"2021-03-04T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T20:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2021-03-04T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T20:53:15","slug":"6419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/2021\/03\/04\/6419\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing Autism in the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/research\/current\/polo-remote-study\/\">POLO<\/a> study collaborator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/opinion\/viewpoint\/catherine-lord-lessons-from-a-storied-career-in-autism-research\/\">Dr. Lord<\/a>, was interviewed by the New York Times for this piece on ASD diagnosis during the pandemic. For any that aren\u2019t familiar with her name, Dr. Lord is the creator of the ADOS, the current gold-standard tool for ASD diagnosis.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The ADOS can\u2019t be done as effectively while masked, because the child and examiner need to be able to clearly see each other\u2019s faces, expressions, and reactions during the assessment- you can read more about diagnosis during the pandemic in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/01\/well\/family\/diagnosing-autism-in-the-pandemic.html?smid=em-share\">this New York Times article<\/a>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our POLO study collaborator, Dr. Lord, was interviewed by the New York Times for this piece on ASD diagnosis during the pandemic. For any that aren\u2019t familiar with her name, Dr. Lord is the creator of the ADOS, the current gold-standard tool for ASD diagnosis. The ADOS can\u2019t be done as effectively while masked, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6421,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions\/6421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}