11 articles in this issue
Laurence Arnold
Introduction to the third Edition of Autonomy
Robert H. Rice
Systematic study comparing repetitive behaviors in autism with those observed in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and other Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- Fourth Edition-Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) diagnoses is lacking despite its... see more
Jane Meyerding
Since writing this essay in 1998, I've come to believe that the categorization of people into separate boxes labeled "Asperger Syndrome" and "autism" (or "high-functioning autism") is seriously misleading. I prefer to identify myself now as au... see more
Damian Milton
This paper explores the concepts of ‘embodiment’ (Merleau-Ponty, 1945), as well as those of ‘conditioned relativism’ and ‘dispositional diversity’ as first devised by the paper’s author some fifteen years ago as an undergraduate student, and applies them ... see more
Theresa Turner
"It really, really, really sucks. My favorite result of the last five years is an artefact."- Steven Petersen, chief of neuropsychology at Washington University in St. Louis, describing how head movements may have marred brain-imaging studies of autism. O... see more
Konstantinos Georgiou
In this paper the authors try to provide a constructionist review with regards to the autistic subjectivity. Placing autism in a historical terrain, they use ideas stemming from social constructionism in order to examine the core subject of this paper tha... see more
Charlotte Stace
Communication methods have improved drastically in recent decades, enabling minority groups to share ideas and information, and facilitating important networks for such groups. Past research into minority groups and language has focused on the way... see more
Susy Ridout
This paper is a reflection on a workshop that I contributed to the second Theorising Autism conference run by the Theorising Autism Project. As a researcher, I have a particular interest in narratives, discourse and identities, and the performative nature... see more
Anat Greenstein
This is a review paper of the Theorising Autism Project seminar day at he Institute of Education
Athina D. Papandreou
The purpose of this study is to summarize the biological factors contributed to the development of the phenotype of Autistic Spectrum Disorders. This essay is a systematic review of published research on this topic. According to the researchers, an abnorm... see more
Damian Elgin Maclean Milton
Review of Horizon: Living with Autism (BBC2)