... and strategies employed in the assessment of a young man with ASD and ID who eventually got the additional diagnosis of schizophrenia. Design/methodology/approach To describe and explore a process not easily converted into quantitative measures, it was chosen to perform a case study of a single case...

...Michael Fitzgerald Purpose – Considerable confusion surrounds the overlapping of autism and schizophrenia. This has significant implications for clinicians given that correct diagnosis is critical for treatment. Design/methodology/approach – This paper sets out to clarify the position...

... and intellectual disability met documented DSM criteria for intellectual disability; the prevalence of reported ASD was much lower than expected; and the average number of different discharge diagnoses per individual over time was 4.8. Schizophrenia diagnoses were made early in the diagnostic process and tended...

...Colin Hemmings; Francis Inwang; Shaun Gravestock; Zurima Diaz; Larte Lawson; Nicky Walker People with schizophrenia and related psychoses may be more likely to be ‘treatment‐resistant’ when dually diagnosed with intellectual disabilities. This case study highlights many of the difficulties which...