Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis Maynard Douglas W.
Examines the diagnostic process to question how we understand autism as a category and to better recognize its intelligence and uncommon sense.As autism has become a widely prevalent diagnosis, we…
Specifikacia Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis Maynard Douglas W.
Examines the diagnostic process to question how we understand autism as a category and to better recognize its intelligence and uncommon sense.As autism has become a widely prevalent diagnosis, we have grown increasingly desperate to understand it. Whether by placing baseless blame on vaccinations or seeking a genetic cause, Americans have struggled to understand what autism is and where it comes from. In Autistic Intelligence, Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz focus on a different origin of autism: the diagnostic process. By looking at how autism is diagnosed, they ask us to question the norms we use to measure autistic behavior against, why we understand autistic behavior as disordered, and how we go about assigning that disorder to particular people.To do so, the authors take a close look at a clinic in which children are assessed for and diagnosed with
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