Judicial decision‐making in family court involving children with autism spectrum disorder
Emilie Lahaie,
Karine Poitras,
Rachel Birnbaum
Abstract:The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children and adolescents has increased over the past decade. Consequently, the courts and experts are more likely to be exposed to these children whose needs are highly heterogeneous. The present study aims to document judicial decision‐making about children with autism spectrum as well as the parenting recommendations made by experts involved in these cases. There were 104 court decisions reviewed in Quebec over the past ten years. The results show that 85.6… Show more
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