Teaching Healthcare Students and Professionals to Accommodate People With Neurodevelopmental Disorders During Physical Examinations.

People diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) experience health disparities. To reduce disparities, healthcare students and professionals have repeatedly called for more training to help patients with NDD. To answer these calls, we developed time-efficient training to teach healthcare students and professionals to use evidence-based behavioral interventions during physical examinations to increase the comfort and cooperation of people with NDD. We hypothesized that the training would increase participants' confidence and competency in helping patients with NDD. Participants (n = 173) completed the training in less than 1.5 hr, reported increased confidence after the training, and demonstrated competency to use the interventions during testing. Our results support educators integrating this freely available, time-efficient training into healthcare education.