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In 2012, ASAN began the annual Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Summer Institute, [46] a week-long workshop teaching autistic students to engage in activism and advocacy on their campuses. [47] Disability rights activist Lydia Brown is an alumn of the leadership program. [48]
The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD) is an organization that provides a range of services based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children and adults on the autism spectrum. CARD was founded in 1990 by Doreen Granpeesheh. The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, acquired CARD in 2018.
Founded as the Efficacy Research Institute by Vincent Strully, [4] Dudley Orr, and John Pangburn in 1975, it was initially located in the Taunton State Hospital in Taunton, Massachusetts. In 1986, the school's name changed to the New England Center for Autism and relocated to Southborough before the title revised again to the New England Center ...
Ole Ivar Løvaas (8 May 1927 – 2 August 2010) [1] [2] was a Norwegian-American clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.He is most well known for his research on what is now called applied behavior analysis (ABA) to teach autistic children through prompts, modeling, and positive reinforcement.
There is disagreement within the autism community on whether to use person-first terminology (e.g., person with autism) or identity-first terminology (e.g., autistic person). The autism rights movement encourages the use of identity-first terminology [122] to stress that autism is a part of an individual's identity rather than a condition they ...
In 1964, Dr. Bernard Rimland wrote a book, Infantile Autism, that convinced others working in the field that autism is a physiological disorder, not a mental or emotional problem. [9] Rimland was a founder of the Autism Society of America in 1965, but left to create the Autism Research Institute in 1967. [10]
The scientific consensus is that there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, between vaccines and incidence of autism, [16] [17] [15] and vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. [ 18 ] Nevertheless, the anti-vaccination movement continues to promote myths, conspiracy theories and misinformation linking the two. [ 19 ]
Bernard Rimland (November 15, 1928 – November 21, 2006) was an American research psychologist, writer, lecturer, and influential person in the field of developmental disorders.