Concepts of Normality
The Autistic and Typical Spectrum
Wendy Lawson
Foreword by Lucy Clark
Paperback: £14.99 / $24.95
2008, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-604-3, BIC 2: JM
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Acknowledgements. Foreword. Lucy Clark, Homes Caring for Autism Ltd, UK. Preface. Petra Bjorn, Lund University, Sweden and Magnus Bjorn, Nimbus Resurscenter, Lund, Sweden. Introduction. 1. Developing Images of Normal and Influence Upon Concepts of Normality. 2. Developing Concepts of the Autistic and Typical Spectrums. 3. The Individual, Family and Society: More on How Ideas of Normality have Changed. 4. A Typical Day and a Typical Conversation (Implications and Know-how for Conversing with Others). 5. Whose Mind Do We Have? Knowing One Another. 6. Autism, Sexuality and Normal. 7. Whose Normal is it Anyway? Dr Dinah Murray, The University of Birmingham, UK . 8. Inclusive and Accepting or Exclusive and Rejecting? Understanding Self and Other. 9. The Mismeasure of Autism: The Basis for Current Autism `Advocacy'. Estee Klar-Wolfond, The Autism Acceptance Project, Canada. 10. Changing the Status Quo So That it Does Not Change Me but Allows Me to Develop My Fullest Potential. References. Resources. Index.
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