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Should People With Autism and Very High Needs Have a Separate Diagnosis? Takeaways From AP’s Report

February 25, 2026

Two Feb. 15 Associated Press stories quoting Dena Gassner, PhD, a senior research scientist in the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, about a push to create a new diagnosis called "profound autism" and a family with two children living with profound autism were republished by ABC News.

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