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Autistic People Not Automatically Dismissed From National Health Service Mental Health Teams

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Sigríður Dóra Magnúsdóttir, director of the Capital Region Health Service, says that mental health teams used to turn people away from services because of autism, but that was changed almost a year ago. A quarter of clients of the Health Service's mental health teams have symptoms of autism or are on the autism spectrum. Young people with autism and their families described in the news commentary program Kveik last night that they repeatedly hit…
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Sigríður Dóra Magnúsdóttir, director of the Capital Region Health Service, says that mental health teams used to turn people away from services because of autism, but that was changed almost a year ago. A quarter of clients of the Health Service's mental health teams have symptoms of autism or are on the autism spectrum. Young people with autism and their families described in the news commentary program Kveik last night that they repeatedly hit…

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RÚV broke the news in on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
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