[1] He was previously a faculty member at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.
His education includes degrees in social work and sociology, and postdoctoral training in epidemiology.
While a postgraduate student at UWM, Shattuck worked on a study[2] which concluded that some autistic children's behaviors, as they grow up, can improve with age.
[6][7] Another topic of Shattuck's research is whether autistic children attend college and/or get a job after they graduate from high school.
[8][9][10][11] His most recent study on the topic, for example, concluded that only 53% of autistic children had ever held a paying job during the eight years following high school, the lowest rate among all disability groups.