Brief Report: Professional Perceptions of Children with Developmental Difficulties: The Influence of Race and Socioeconomic Status.

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Autism; Children; Clinical Diagnosis; Developmental Delays; Economically Disadvantaged; Influences; Psychiatrists; Race; School Psychologists; Sociocultural Patterns; Socioeconomic Status; Speech Language Pathology

0162-3257

School-based speech pathologists, school psychologists, and child psychiatrists (n=185) were surveyed to examine the role of sociocultural variables on clinicians' impressions of children with autism and related developmental disorders. Professional perceptions of children in hypothetical vignettes varied as a function of both practitioner's discipline and child's socioeconomic status. (PB)

1997

EJ530693