Most work emphasizes systemic delays to diagnosis rather than how existing screening
procedures may affect identification. Our goal was to examine pediatric care visits in which
screening was most likely to occur to document behaviors of parents and providers.
Methods: We examined 18-to 36-month primary care visits in our electronic health record
system (n= 99) of thirty-nine 4-and 8-year-old Black children later diagnosed with ASD. We …