Abstract

Children from low-income or low-English-proficiency (LEP) families are at higher risk for receiving delayed receipt of developmental diagnoses (e.g., autism) compared with English-speaking and middle-income families. To investigate barriers to care in this setting, researchers used a “mystery shopper” design to gather information from U.S. children's hospitals with developmental-behavioral evaluation programs. A bilingual researcher called each hospital program, first in English and then in …

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