4 articles in this issue
Laurence Arnold
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Jim Sinclair
This article was published in the Autism Network International newsletter, Our Voice, Volume 1, Number 3, 1993. It is an outline of the presentation Jim gave at the 1993 International Conference on Autism in Toronto, and is addressed primarily to parents.... see more
This short paper, adapted from an academic essay written in 2003, attempts to place autism in a historical and cultural context. The author places himself squarely within this context and concludes that autism sits very easily within the social model of d... see more
Damian Milton,Lyte Moon
This paper critically analyses the use of normative social scientific principles in the treatment of autistic people and utilises the concept of psycho-emotional disablement (Reeve, 2002, 2004), to suggest that such a dominant normalising agenda has led t... see more