Michelle Hartley-McAndrew, MD, FAAP
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Neurology
Medical Director,
The Children‟s Guild Foundation Autism Spectrum Disorder Center
Women and Children‟s Hospital of Buffalo

Accurate and reliable diagnosis of a comorbid psychiatric disorder is imperative in order that those might receive proper treatment. Clinicians who are not familiar with autism spectrum disorders may think many of the behaviors are secondary to the autism features themselves, however, this is not the case. It is important to be knowledgeable about the features of autism such that one can understand where the behaviors of autism end and the features of another mental health disorder begin