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TAKING THE MYTH AND MYSTERY OUT OF THE HISTORY: Part One
Many myths and fallacies are attached to ASD but perhaps one of the strangest is the idea that it only actually began in the...

TAKING THE MYTH AND MYSTERY OUT OF THE HISTORY: Part Two
The 19th century too seems to have had its fair share of children who might fit the criteria for ASD today: children who,  in keeping with...

THE AUTISM WARS Part One: War Of The Worlds
Regrettably the past two decades have seen the rise of the autism wars. One such battlefront is linked to the idea that autism is triggered by...

THE AUTISM WARS - Part Two: Battlefronts
Another battle in the autism wars began with the apparent increase in ASD in the late 1980s, which some people believed - as some still do - was really...

EXPLORING THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM
I was always told that if you want to learn something you should ‘ask an expert’ and so when I set out to write a short booklet on anxiety in the late 1980s, I decided to begin my...

Formerly Known as Asperger's Syndrome
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APS) is one of two main international sets of diagnostic criteria for...

AUTISM AWARENESS Part One: What's In A Name?
Today people generally try to be politically correct but, while a good thing in theory that can have some drawbacks, especially in relation to Autistic Spectrum...

Whoops! - Understanding Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia refers to children who have movement difficulties and means the poor performance of movement. The word is taken from the Greek dys - bad and ‘praxis’ - the learned ability to...

Disappointing! Simplistic! Misleading?
My last article on DSM-5 looked at the loss of one important diagnosis - that of Disintegrative Disorder. And yet reviewing the situation there is another aspect of...

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