DisabilityScoop highlighted a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania, which found that increasing respite for caregivers may decrease the number of children with autism who are admitted to psychiatric hospitals. The study found that for every $1,000 that a state spent on respite, hospitalization decreased by 8%. Researchers believe that having to hospitalize a child with autism is sometimes because the stress on the family becomes too overwhelming, and that respite assistance could help. The researchers explained, “Identifying ways to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations among those with autism is important, because previous research has found that those with the disorder are far more likely to be hospitalized than their peers with other psychiatric or developmental conditions.”
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