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The second book in the ‘Autism: Becoming a Professional Parent’ series has been released
After examining sensory perception in autism in the first book, the newly released second instalment focuses on communication and...
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Jul 28, 20236 min read
Psychosis and Autism (1):
Overlapping symptoms and differences Psychosis Psychosis is not a diagnosis in and of itself but rather a cluster of symptoms present in...
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Jun 3, 20233 min read
Autism & Dementia (3):
Similarities and differences in conceptualisation, diagnosis and research Similarities: ASD and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are...
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Apr 29, 20237 min read
Autism and Dementia: (2)
Overlaps in biological pathways, clinical features and behavioural expression Although Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and ASD are etiologically...
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Mar 18, 20234 min read
Autism and Dementia: (1) Prevalence
- Hello, where are you? - I am at home. - At home? Where? - I have one home, in England. Why? What’s happened? - Why did you leave...
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Dec 9, 20223 min read
Conscious and subconscious perception and how it is reflected in memory and thinking
The way we perceive the world affects the way we store and use information. The conscious mind is not the only way of receiving...
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Oct 1, 20213 min read
Theory of Mind (and alleged lack of it) in autism
According to some researchers (e.g., Ramachandran 1995), it is mirror neurons that allow us to "read" and understand another's...
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Sep 24, 20213 min read
'Broken mirror neurons’ are said to explain autism:
But do they? Giacomo Rizzollati and colleagues (1992) conducted experiments on monkeys, recording signals from parts of the frontal lobes...
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Sep 17, 20214 min read
Autistic inertia:
Can’t start – can’t stop Another problem autistic individuals experience is ‘inertia’ (Dekker 1999) – difficulty in starting, stopping,...
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Sep 10, 20213 min read
Empathy in autism (and alleged lack of it)
Autistic people are said to be (severely) impaired in their ability to empathise with other people which is reflected in the...
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Sep 3, 20214 min read
Looking for triggers of ‘challenging behaviours’ in autism.
It is not as simple as ABC When we come across a behaviour that’s difficult, there’s a popular method that’s used to help parents and...
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Jul 30, 20213 min read
Hyperlexia:
A splinter skill or a learning style? One morning (not the best time for me – getting ready for my work), my autistic son (who had...
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Jul 23, 20214 min read
Flynn effect: Are we getting more stupid?
The Flynn effect – named after Professor James Flynn of the University of Otago in New Zealand – refers to a phenomenon of rising IQ...
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Jul 16, 20214 min read
Autism: Functional disability:
It is not straightforward Despite differences in approaches to define ‘intelligence’, most experts agree that intelligence is the...
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Jul 9, 20214 min read
‘Autistic Intelligence’
Big world people [non-autistics] can be considered idiots in the autistic world, too, just as it can be the other way round. (Jasmine...
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Jul 2, 20214 min read
IQ and autism:
What do we measure with IQ tests? Measuring non-autistic people by [the autistic] type of development would often find them failing...
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Jun 4, 20213 min read
Savant syndrome and autism
by Peter Myers Savant syndrome is the condition in which individuals with serious neurodevelopmental disabilities or other central...
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May 28, 20214 min read
Cognitive Synaesthesia:
When Wednesdays are blue, numbers are as cities, and 5 + 2 = yellow … After one of the ‘incidents’ (panic attacks), Alyosha attempted to...
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May 7, 20214 min read
Attention! – Pay Attention to Attention in Autism
During a science lesson, the teacher shows a picture of a plant and explains what different parts of the plant do. ‘The root holds the...
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