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224. ISBN. 978-1-85302-718-5. OCLC. 56965690. Followed by. Somebody Somewhere. Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl is the award-nominated [1] debut book by Australian Donna Williams. It was initially published in Britain in 1992, and was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 15 weeks in the first half of 1993.
Social Stories were devised as a tool to help autistic individuals better understand the nuances of interpersonal communication so that they could "interact in an effective and appropriate manner". [1] Although the prescribed format was meant for high functioning people with basic communication skills, the format was adapted substantially to ...
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.
Bruno Bettelheim. Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian -born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian ...
Simon Baron-Cohen. Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen FBA FBPsS FMedSci (born 15 August 1958) [1] is a British clinical psychologist and professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He is the director of the university's Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1985, Baron-Cohen formulated the ...
This is a list of fictional characters that have been explicitly described within the work in which they appear, or otherwise by the author, as being on the autism spectrum. It is not intended to include speculation. Autistic people involved in the work may be mentioned in footnotes.
Founder of TEACCH, autism researcher, professor and author. Notable work. Research and books on autism, Asperger syndrome, developmental disorders, TEACCH. Eric Schopler (February 8, 1927 – July 7, 2006) was a German born American psychologist whose pioneering research into autism led to the foundation of the TEACCH program.
t. e. Facilitated communication (FC), or supported typing, is a scientifically discredited technique, [1] which claims to allow non-verbal people, such as those with autism, to communicate. The technique involves a facilitator guiding the disabled person's arm or hand in an attempt to help them type on a keyboard or other such device which they ...