Die WHO beschreibt Autismus als tiefgreifende Entwicklungsstörung, die sich schon im frühen Kindesalter bemerkbar macht. Ob es sich nun um eine angeborene, unheilbare Wahrnehmungsstörung des Gehirns handelt, oder um einen angeborenen, abweichenden Informationsverarbeitungsmodus …
Since the early 1940s, when first identified as childhood psychosis and autistic psychopathy, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has continued to burgeon into a major focus of inquiry and interest among researchers, practitioners, and the public alike. With each passing decade, the …
Since the early 1940s, when first identified as childhood psychosis and autistic psychopathy, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has continued to burgeon into a major focus of inquiry and interest among researchers, practitioners, and the public alike. With each passing decade, the …
The authors identify the range of needs that may be expressed through behaviours that cause concern and provide strategies for addressing both needs and behaviours.
Everyone seems to agree that we have an epidemic of what is diagnosed as autism. But, in the history of our society, there has never been an epidemic of any developmental or genetic disorder. Yet, over the span of thirty years, autism has gone from affecting one in 5,000 childre…
"'Exposure Anxiety' is an involuntary social-emotional self-protection response that is increasingly understood as a crippling condition affecting a high proportion of people on the autism spectrum. To many it is an invisible cage, leaving the person suffering from it aware, but…
