Introduction The term neurodiversity is defined and discussed from the perspectives of
neuroscience, psychology and campaigners with lived experience, illustrating the …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised by social difficulties that can have a
negative impact on an individual's psychological and social wellbeing. To date, reviews of …

The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical
landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human …

This article considers the fate of Asperger's disorder in the light of proposals for the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) to collapse Asperger's …

Purpose The goal of this study was to expand the field's understanding of autism through the
analysis of 1st-person perspectives from autistic video webloggers (vloggers). Method This …

Drawing on her own experiences with the mental health system, Margaret Price interrogates
the language used to describe mental disability, including the terms psychiatric disability …

Autonomy of people on the autism-spectrum has only been very rarely conceptually
explored. Autism spectrum is commonly considered a hetereogenous disorder, and typically …

Children's play is a principal site for the construction of disability, and this is particularly the
case for autistic children. Investigation of children's own perspectives in play provides …

Empathy is essential for social functioning and is relevant to a host of clinical conditions.
This COSMIN review evaluated the empirical support for empathy self-report measures used …

With so much unknown about autism, the disability tends to reflect the sociocultural
preconceptions people project onto it. The predominant narrative in Western society of …