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Misconceptions about autistic people also run rampant, regardless of their gender, although we're starting to come around as a society. Far from the artistic savant stereotypes many people grew up ...
Lydia X. Z. Brown (born 1993) is an American autistic disability rights activist, writer, attorney, and public speaker who was honored by the White House in 2013. [1] They are the chairperson of the American Bar Association Civil Rights & Social Justice Disability Rights Committee.
She has written articles on autism from the point of view of parents and care providers, most recently in the Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Wiley, 2005), edited by Fred Volkmar; she wrote the foreword to The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's (2008) by Temple Grandin, an adult with autism; she was ...
The diagnosis of Triplett led to the complex history of autism, which involved many conflicts among autism specialists and advocates. From there, the history of autism would unfold across decades, playing out in many and varied dramatic episodes, bizarre twists, and star turns, both heroic and villainous, by researchers, educators, activists and autistic people themselves.
Autism in Love (2015) is an American documentary film. The Autistic Gardener (2015) is a Channel 4 documentary series in which a team of autistic people redesign people's gardens. [15] Girls with Autism (2015) is a documentary following three girls at Limpsfield Grange, a specialized school in the United Kingdom. [16]
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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.
Alexis Wineman is an autism advocate [1] who was named Miss Montana 2012. [1] She won the "America's Choice" award at the Miss America 2013 pageant [1] and is the first known autistic contestant to compete in the Miss America pageant. [2] [3]