Understanding Autism, 2011, p.141-166
2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Brains, Pedigrees, and Promises: Lessons from the Politics of Autism Genetics
- Ist Teil von
- Understanding Autism, 2011, p.141-166
- Ort / Verlag
- Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Patricia Stacey is a memoirist who attributes her son’s recovery from autism to “floor time,” an intensive program of early behavioral intervention. Like many parents’ accounts, Stacey’s story of her child’s diagnosis and treatment includes an explanation of autism’s causes. In her version, seemingly unaffected parents exhibit, in milder form, the same behaviors and sensitivities as their children. Autism “runs in the family.”¹ When Stacey describes how a therapist’s passing comment about her tendency to “space out” during sessions with her son helped her recognize her own sensory oversensitivities and defensiveness, she is speaking to a wider community of parents
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780691159683, 0691159688DOI: 10.1515/9781400840397.141Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt7t3n6_9
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Autistic disorder, Behavioral genetics, Behavioral sciences, Biological evolution, Biological sciences, Biology, Childhood mental disorders, Children, Clinical psychology, Developmental disabilities, Disabilities, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary processes, Evolutionary studies, Families, Family members, Genetic research, Genetics, Health sciences, Human genetics, Human populations, Human societies, Intellectual disability, Medical conditions, Medical genetics, Mental illness, Parents, Persons, Pervasive child development disorders, Population genetics, Population studies, Psychology, Social institutions, Social sciences, Sociology