Sven Bölte- Keynote speech: From diagnosis to functioning and quality of life in autism

Keynote speech given by Sven Bölte from the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden) at the Autism-Europe's 12th International Congress 2019: "A New Dynamic for Change and Inclusion", held the 13-15th September 2019 in Nice, France.

Traditionally, autism is viewed and assessed from the clinical symptomatology perspective. Still, for autistic individuals, their families and large parts of society, the dimensions of functioning and quality of life are both more significant and accessible. In this key note lecture, a review is given on quality of life and functioning in autism, and it is discussed why shifting attention from diagnosis to these dimensions is meaningful and necessary. Particularly, this presentation describes the potential of the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), and the recently developed ICF Core Sets for autism to facilitate this process.

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