Interpreting (Autistic?) Mind Style

Inside the autistic mind.

Her parents, therapists, nutritionists and teachers had spent years preparing the way. They had moved mountain to improve her sense of balance, her sensory perception and her overall health. They sent in truckloads of occupational and physical therapy and emotional support. But it wasn't until the fall of 2005 that traffic finally began to flow in the other direction. Hannah, whose speech was l...

Theories of the autistic mind

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The analyst ’ s mind and autistic transformations

The beautiful otherness of the autistic mind.

1. INTRODUCTION Of all the features of autism, none is more widely admired than the remarkable talent found so frequently with this condition. Yet special talents are still less researched and less well understood than other features of autism. In popular accounts of autism, the existence of extraordinary talent in art, music, maths, calendar calculation or memory, often referred to as savant s...

Examining and interpreting the female protective effect against autistic behavior.

Male preponderance in autistic behavioral impairment has been explained in terms of a hypothetical protective effect of female sex, yet little research has tested this hypothesis empirically. If females are protected, they should require greater etiologic load to manifest the same degree of impairment as males. The objective of this analysis was to examine whether greater familial etiologic loa...