Caregiver well-being has long been a topic of discussion in the autism community. The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), the federal advisory committee that coordinates and provides policy recommendations to the multiple government agencies that provide resources and support to the autism community, recently held its quarterly meeting focused on the topic of family caregivers. There is a long research history of parents of autistic children reporting higher levels of stress than parents of allistic children (Barroso et al., 2018; Lee et al., 2017; Rivard et al., 2014) and parents of children who experience other developmental disabilities (Griffith et al., 2010; Gupta, 2007).
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