Dr. Piven is a child/adolescent Psychiatrist specializing in the clinical care of individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. He is Director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, a comprehensive program of services, research and training in neurodevelopmental disorders.
We have just begun to understand that aging in autism is a critically important area of study that urgently requires our attention. This older life stage is likely to be as highly complex as earlier life stages of kids with autism – complexities on top of complexities.
Joe Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, co-presented an overview of autism research in older populations before the US DHHS Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.