Paul T. Shattuck is an autism researcher at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at

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, where he leads the Research Program Area on Life Course Outcomes. He was previously a faculty member at the

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Education

Dr. Shattuck obtained his Ph.D. in social welfare and an M.S.W. from the

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in 2005, where he served as a postdoctoral fellow for two years thereafter. His education includes degrees in social work and sociology, and postdoctoral training in epidemiology.

Career and research

While a postgraduate student at UWM, Shattuck worked on a study which concluded that some autistic children's behaviors, as they grow up, can improve with age. He is also well known for publishing a study in 2006 concluding that broadening of the diagnostic criteria has made a major contribution to the rise in autism rates, and for another study published three years later about the age at diagnosis of autistic children, which was later recognized as one of the most important autism studies of the year by both

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and the Federal

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. Another topic of Shattuck's research is whether autistic children attend college and/or get a job after they graduate from high school. In general, his research on this topic has concluded that a much higher percentage of autistic children are unemployed after high school than children with speech or language impairments or learning disabilities. His most recent study on the topic, for example, concluded that only 53% of autistic children had ever held a paying job during the eight years following high school, the lowest rate among all disability groups.

References

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