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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Autism Studies"”.
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Great is our Sin: Neuroprivilege in Modern Autism Discourse
… disabling language and discourse within modern autism studies. The rhetoric of science has determined multiple useful strategies for isolating the mechanisms by which these discursive paradigms operate. However, less attention has been devoted to the origin of theories suggesting that observed …
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Towards a New Understanding: Complex Familial Constructs of Autism
… a better understanding of how families construct autism. Studies have overwhelmingly used the medical model or the institutional narrative to interpret how autism is understood in families. More recently, a counter-narrative has emerged resisting this medical model. Both narratives, however, …
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Social Virtual Environments as ‘Third Places’: Co-Designing Socio-Relational Spaces For Autistic Young Adults
… of life of autistic young adults. Historically, autism research and intervention have focused primarily on childhood and have often been grounded in deficit-based frameworks. In contrast, contemporary perspectives informed by the neurodiversity paradigm emphasize autism as a form of human …
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Philosophical enquiry and autism: story/ing/ied bags of unexpected human and more-than-human encounters in speech-language therapy and classroom spaces
… childhood intervention and childhood dis/ability studies. The aim of the thesis is to explore the concept of ontoepistemic injustice for autistic children with/in educational and therapeutic settings. Current pedagogies and interventions are embedded in human-centric ontologies that position …
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Autistic Workers: Invisible People
… need to be helped. There have been no academic studies asking autistic adults to give their general impressions on their work environments. The paucity of narratives from working autistic authorities has effectively made them into a hidden, or invisible population. We do not know if they agree …
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Analysing Relational Responding Skills and Verbal Ability in Children with Autism, and Typically-developing Children
… of children with developmental disabilities. The studies reported in the current thesis were concerned with testing and training relational responding skills using protocol based on RFT (Rehfeldt & Barnes-Holmes, 2009), with two groups of children. Study 1, presented in Chapter 2 of the current …
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Structure or Knot: What Phenomenology and Asperger’s Syndrome can Teach Lacanian Psychoanalysis About Subjective Constitution
… Asperger’s Syndrome (now, with the DSM 5, Autism Spectrum Disorder) through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis and speaks to current debates in the field regarding the structural diagnosis of autism. Framed by critiques of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the project takes up autism and treatments …