“…The final survey tool included eight domains focusing on personal and professional demographic information, educational and clinical experience relevant to caring for people with Intellectual Disability and/or autism, and self‐perceived knowledge, comfort, confidence, and preparedness to care for this cohort. This paper focuses solely on one open‐ended free text question within the survey: “If relevant, please specify any challenges or barriers when communicating with people with Intellectual Disability and/or autism.” The other survey findings have been published (Cashin, Pracilio, Buckley, Kersten, et al, 2022; Cashin, Pracilio, Buckley, Morphet, et al, 2022; Wilson et al, 2022). The size of the survey with several key variables, the largest of its kind identified internationally, and the volume of findings resulted in the need for multiple publications to adequately convey the findings and implications.…”