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Article Updated – September 2022
Since this article was first written in 2017 we have published two journal articles related to PDA.
The first is titled “Modification of the Coventry Grid Interview (Flackhill et al, 2017) to include the Pathological Demand Avoidant profile”
When this then feeds through to schoolteachers and SENCO’s it can lead to tense situations between school and parents.
The PDA profile does exist. The research evidence is growing …
Since this article was first written in 2017 we have published two journal articles related to PDA. The first is titled “Modification of the Coventry Grid Interview (Flackhill et al, 2017) to include the Pathological Demand Avoidant profile” and the second is titled “An exploration of the Pathological (or Extreme) Demand Avoidant profile in children referred for an autism diagnostic assessment using data from ADOS-2 assessments and their developmental histories.”
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