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240. ISBN. 9780547636450. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum is a 2013 nonfiction popular science book written by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It discusses Grandin's life experiences as a person with autism from the early days of scientific research on the topic and how advances in ...
Christopher John Francis Boone The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Mark Haddon England: Although the blurb on the back of the book says that Christopher is on the spectrum, it is not explicitly stated in the story and was later denied by the author. [148] The book was adapted into a stage play of the same name. [149] 2003
ISBN. 978-1-58333-467-6 (Hardcover) NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity [ 1] from historic, scientific, and advocacy -based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, [ 2][ 3] and has received wide acclaim from both ...
John H. Davis (author) John Hagy Davis (June 14, 1929 – January 29, 2012) was an American author who wrote several books on the Bouvier and Kennedy families and on the Mafia, both the Sicilian Mafia and its Italian-American offshoot. [2]
The book Autism: Explaining the Enigma was released by Uta Frith in 1989. It explained to non-autistic people how autistic people thought. A second edition was published in 2003. The popular book Children with autism: a parents' guide was also released in 1989. It was edited by American psychologist Michael D. Powers. [370]
One in 100 people (1%) worldwide [ 9] Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder[ a] ( ASD) or autism spectrum condition ( ASC ), [ 10] is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in ...
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) or autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) describe a range of conditions classified as neurodevelopmental disorders in the DSM-5, used by the American Psychiatric Association. [1] As with many neurodivergent people and conditions, the popular image of autistic people and autism itself is often based on inaccurate ...
Social Stories were devised as a tool to help autistic individuals better understand the nuances of interpersonal communication so that they could "interact in an effective and appropriate manner". [1] Although the prescribed format was meant for high functioning people with basic communication skills, the format was adapted substantially to ...