Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) is a developmental disorder that is being increasingly recognised as part of the autism spectrum. The main characteristic is a continued resistance to the ordinary demands of life through strategies of social manipulation, which origi…
Een jonge vrouw beschrijft wat het betekent om autistisch te zijn, waar ze tegenaan loopt en hoe lastig het is om zichzelf te handhaven in een cultuur van neurotypische personen die aan de norm voldoen. Bianca (1984) legt uit wat het betekent om autistisch te zijn. Ze zocht uit…
Autism: that's being able to count matches really fast and knowing that 7 August 1984 was a Tuesday, right? Well, no. In this book, Bianca Toeps explains in great detail what life is like when you're autistic. She does this by looking at what science says about autism (and why s…
"Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is estimated at one in 54 people (Maenner et al., 2020). Of people diagnosed with ASD in childhood, 85% continue to meet diagnostic criteria as adults (Billstedt et al., 2005). As with most neurodevelopmental disorders, ASD has histo…
"Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is estimated at one in 54 people (Maenner et al., 2020). Of people diagnosed with ASD in childhood, 85% continue to meet diagnostic criteria as adults (Billstedt et al., 2005). As with most neurodevelopmental disorders, ASD has histo…
"This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-H…
The author relates her experiences as a late-diagnosed autistic, describing struggles with antisocial impulses, her connection with the gorillas at a Seattle zoo, and her eventual ability to develop human relationships.
Resource added for the Foundations of Teacher Education 105222 and Paraeducator (Instructional Assistant) 315222 programs.
Los autores resumen lo que se conoce sobre la biología y las características de comportamiento del autismo, y proporcionan relatos concisos pero exhaustivos de todos los modelos psicológicos influyentes, incluyendo los modelos de la "Teoría de la Mente" (ToM), los modelos de des…
Based on Francesca Happé's 1994 textbook, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism. Fletcher-Watson and Happé explore the relationship between theories of autism at psychological (cognitive), biological, and beha…
