Foster care is a temporary placement within the United States for children who cannot live with their families. In a policy article on Spectrum (https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/many-children-autism-end-foster-care/) it was reported that children […]
The term autism was first introduced in 1908 by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939) to describe an atypical behavior observed in some schizophrenic patients. The etymology of the term […]
Claudia Mazzucco is a journalist and author from Argentina. She is acknowledged as having made a decisive contribution to the History of Golf in Argentina by her researching on its […]
Jill Escher is an autism research philanthropist, president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area, autism housing provider, and mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism. Several of […]
Jill Escher is the mother of two children with nonverbal autism, a provider of low-income housing for adults with developmental disabilities, and president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area, […]
Leo Kanner played a paramount role in defining autism as a medical condition and in changing societal views towards people with disabilities. He used his academic position at Johns Hopkins […]
The following paragraphs were written for an editorial published by the Siberian Journal of Special Education in the early part of 2016. I asked the editor of the journal, Elena […]
The following paragraphs were written for an editorial published by the Siberian Journal of Special Education in the early part of 2016. I asked the editor of the journal, Elena […]
The following post was written by a regular contributor Yuval Levental. Please go to the following url and sign your name: https://www.change.org/p/paramount-pictures-do-not-produce-neurotribes-which-is-a-book-about-autism-by-steve-silberman-as-a-movie?source_location=minibar Steve Silberman is an autism writer that trivializes […]
Recently I had the opportunity to read an article by John Elder Robison. The same was titled, “Kanner, Asperger, and Frankl: A Third Man at the Genesis of the Autism […]
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