Autism

This issue provides clear, careful, explanations that offer readers and researchers insight into what these conditions are, what causes them, how people live with them, and the latest information about treatment and prevention. The volume includes primary and secondary quotations, annotated bibliographies, detailed indexes, and lists of organizations to contact for additional information.

Autism is a complex phenomenon that is both individual and social. Showing both robust similarities and intriguing differences across cultural contexts, the autism spectrum raises innumerable questions about self, subjectivity, and society in a globalized world. Yet it is often misrepresented as a problem of broken bodies and disordered brains. So, in 2015, a group of interdisciplinary scholars gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for an intellectual experiment: a workshop that joined approaches from psychological anthropology to the South American tradition of Collective Health in order to consider autism within social, historical, and political settings.

Understanding Your Autistic Loved One And Not Letting Autism Define Them: Schooling, Friendships, Identity, Self-Esteem