A narrative assessment is the analysis of a story told by an individual to assess language
and communication. A narrative can be used to measure pragmatic language use because it …

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked
Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening …

Researchers have proposed numerous theories to explain autism, ranging from those that
are psychologically focused to those influenced by biology and neurology. Many theories of …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental
conditions, yet is chronically underserved, with far fewer children receiving clinical services …

The 1990s were officially launched by then–US president George HW Bush as the “Decade
of the Brain”(Bush 1990), and some believe that the first hundred years of the new …

Linguists have long sought to draw support from developmental disorders like Williams
Syndrome (WS) and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) for linguistic theories and the …

Neurodiversity is a movement that wants to make us think differently about autism. It
disagrees with the idea that autism is a disease and instead sees it as a neurological …

Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (2015), a groundbreaking book that
upended conventional thinking about autism. This TED Talk provides a brief summary of the …

In this chapter, we discuss the ways in which a biological explanation of autism has been
refashioned into a neurological account of neurodiversity. The neurodiversity discourse …

Media representations can perpetuate stereotypes about marginalized groups. Autism is
often portrayed as a series of deficits needing correction. Many autistic self-advocates argue …