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That same year, Temple Grandin, herself autistic, published a short article recommending the use of autistic people's employment skills, in particular visual thinking. [20] At the end of 2000, researcher Sophie Nesbitt worked with the UK's National Autistic Society (NAS) to study the employability of people diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. [21]
In 1993, Jones et al. [10] stated that there was insufficient use of the TEACCH approach in the UK to include it in their study of interventions. [11] In 2003 it was reported that Gary B. Mesibov and Eric Schopler describe TEACCH as the United Kingdom's most common intervention used with children with autism. In Europe and the United States, it ...
The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, or SFARI for short, is a research program established in 2005 by the Simons Foundation, which focuses on all aspects of autism research. Its director is Kelsey Martin. [1] The organization has funded more than $200 million in autism research to 150 different investigators since 2007. [2]
Autism was not recognized until the 1980s in China. The estimated prevalence of autism is 11.8 per 10,000 people while the estimated prevalence of autism spectrum conditions is 26.6 per 10,000 people. In Japan, recent estimates of autism spectrum are as high as 13 per 10,000 people. This suggests that autism is more common in Asia than ...
Autism in France gives rise to numerous controversies. For his book A History of Autism: Conversations with the Pioneers, published in 2010, travel writer Adam Feinstein compared the situation in autism in different countries. He believes that France "remains retrograde", with 75% of people diagnosed with autism being, according to him, kept in ...
The Institute for the International Education of Students, or IES Abroad, is a non-profit study abroad organization that administers study abroad programs for U.S. college-aged students. [2] Founded in 1950 as the Institute of European Studies, the organization has since been renamed to reflect additional offerings in Africa , Asia , Oceania ...
In September 2010, a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found exposure to thimerosal, a preservative that used to be added to vaccines, does not increase a child's risk of developing autism. Responding to the study, Autism Speaks' chief science officer said that the "study adds to a large body of evidence indicating ...
War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence is a book on the theoretical work of CAS. It was published in 2016. [4] Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness is a book on the theoretical work of CAS. It was published in 2018. [4] All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism is a book on the theoretical ...