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The Concept of Neurodiversity Is Dividing the Autism Community

By Simon Baron-Cohen — 2019

It remains controversial—but it doesn’t have to be. We need to embrace both the neurodiversity model and the medical model to fully understand autism.

Read on blogs.scientificamerican.com

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Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism

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The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism (5th Edition: Revised & Expanded)

In this updated and expanded fifth edition, The Way I See It, Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the REAL issues of autism—the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day.

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Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum

International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum.

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it.

Steve Silberman, Oliver Sacks (foreword)

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Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Autism Spectrum, Tourette’s, Anxiety, and More!: The One Stop Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Other Professionals

The completely updated and expanded new edition of this well-established text incorporates DSM-5 changes as well as other new developments.

Martin L. Kutscher

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Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who are really no more than “worried well” are being diagnosed as having a mental disorder and receiving unnecessary treatment.

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Neurodiversity and Learning Disabilities: Strategies and Tools

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Educating a Neurodiverse World | Brian Kinghorn | TEDxTeachersCollege

What kind of world would we have if we all realized what kind of mind we had and began appreciating it? What if we did the same for others? In this talk, Brian Kinghorn champions the cause of Neurodiversity, arguing that there is not just one “standard-issue” brain.

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