Leo Kanner and Autism: A 75 Year Perspective
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 […]
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 […]
Twilah Hiari is an autistic blog writer whose opinions, in part, are a throwback to the Anti-Psychiatry movement of the 1960’s but actualized to fit the problematics of the current […]
More claims are surfacing about the role of Hans Aspeger with the Nazis and the execution of disabled children. Asperger was elevated to sainthood and proclaimed the father of Neurodiversity […]
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to provide a presentation regarding Neurodiversity at the 10th Annual Nurturing Developing Minds Conference. I was not aware of the fact […]
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 […]
The following blog is written by Yuval Levental, a reader and contributor to our blog site. At present Yuval, who is on the autism spectrum, completed a master’s degree in […]
The following blog is written by Yuval Levental, a reader and contributor to our blog site. At present Yuval, who is on the autism spectrum, completed a master’s degree in […]
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 […]
Recently Jim Harris wrote a critical review of two published books dealing with the history of autism (JAACAP 55[8]:729-733, 2016). One of the books reviewed was Neurotribes written by […]
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