Since its initial description, the concept of autism has been firmly rooted within the
conventional medical paradigm of child psychiatry. Increasingly, there have been calls from …

Autistic people experience significant health disparities and reduced life expectancy.
Barriers to accessing healthcare are associated with adverse health outcomes. Autism …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

Recently the Lancet published a Commission on the future of care and clinical research of
autism, which included a side panel arguing for the adoption of “profound autism”, a term in …

Recent work suggests that we are better at interpreting the movements of others who move
like us, and that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) move in a quantifiably …

Research suggests that while individuals may self-report positive attitudes towards autism,
dehumanising attitudes (seeing another as less than human) may still prevail. This study …

Misunderstandings are social in nature, always having two sides. Yet the misunderstandings
experienced by people with Asperger's syndrome are usually studied in terms of the …

Academic Abstract This paper aims to motivate research on emotion regulation success in
naturalistic settings. We define emotion regulation success as achieving one's emotion …

A central diagnostic and anecdotal feature of autism is difficulty with social communication.
We take the position that communication is a two-way, intersubjective phenomenon—as …

The way in which we move influences our ability to perceive, interpret and predict the
actions of others. Thus movements play an important role in social cognition. This review …