Advances in Autism, vol.3, no.3, 2017 Special issue: Improving access to healthcare

Special issue: Improving access to healthcare. The aim of this special issue is to stimulate discussion and new research on the health and health care of people with autism spectrum disorder. In a co-productive approach, we give people on the autism spectrum, their families and health care providers a voice to open an exchange between professionals and people with lived experience. The guest editorial is freely accessible. There are six papers:

• Autism and healthcare
• Quality of health and health services in people with fragile X syndrome: perspective of their parents
• Transition tools and access to adult primary care
• Systemic-attachment formulation for families of children with autism
• An online ASD learning module for pediatric health care professionals
• Pain in Rett syndrome: peculiarities in pain processing and expression, liability to pain causing disorders and diseases, and specific aspects of pain assessment