Introduction to Special Issue ASD in Adulthood: Comorbidity and Intervention

The intent of this special issue was to shine a spotlight on research examining the assessment and treatment of co-occurring problems among adults with ASD. As the number of adults with ASD has risen, the need for research-based guidance on how to best meet this population’s needs has become apparent. This growing need is evident in the rate of scholarly productivity in this area. A cursory GoogleScholar search reflects the upsurge in scientific interest in this area. A search of ‘adult autism’ yields 21,000 results from 2014 to October 1, 2015. This doubles what was seen just a decade earlier (2004–2005), for which a search with the same search terms yields only 10,900 results. In the summer of 2014, we issued a call for submissions for this special issue on ASD in Adulthood, with a focus on Comorbidity and Intervention. We had many excellent submissions, and all were subjected to JADD’s standard masked peer review process. …