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Test your Autism knowledge

Test your knowledge of autism spectrum condition:

True or False?

1. People with a label of autism are not motivated to engage in social interaction.

2. Approximately 1 in 100 people in the UK are diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition.

3. We have tests to validly measure the intelligence of people with autism.

4. The difference between Asperger's syndrome and high functioning autism is that people with Asperger's do not have language delays.

5. People with autism also have a learning disability.

6. Autism is not caused by abusive parenting/ neglect in infancy.

7. When early intervention is used for a minimum of 40 hours per week, appropriate therapy can cure autism.

8. The notion that the MMR vaccine causes or contributes to autism has been proven.

9. Autism occurs in all countries and within all socio-economic classes.

10. Autism affects both males and females equally.

Want to know the answers? Email lisa.hopkins@dimensions-uk.org