The Science and Fiction of Autism - Softcover

Schreibman, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674025695 ISBN 13: 9780674025691

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2007

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"For anyone close to an autistic person who wants to learn about the problem, this is almost certainly the best available manual... Schreibman describes pretty much every current approach to autism, and examines how well supported by evidence each proposed theory is, and how well each therapy works. There is no better straightforward source of answers than this book." - Ian Hacking, London Review of Books"

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Autism is a complex and incurable constellation of bizarre behaviors, impaired cognition, limited language, and most distressingly, a lack of responsiveness to other people, and it has been the center of impassioned debates for decades. What is it? What causes it? How can it be treated? In The Science and Fiction of Autism, one of the country's leading experts in behavioral treatments approaches autism through the context of its controversies, showing where extraordinary and unfounded claims have falsely raised hopes, stirred fears, and ruined lives. Arguing that autism is an entirely biological disorder, however complex its neurological origins, Laura Schreibman lays waste to the beliefs that it is caused by "refrigerator mothers" or the MMR vaccine, as well as to the simplistic claims that it can be cured by a variety of unsubstantiated treatments. Drawing from her own long clinical experience with autistic children and their parents, Schreibman arms her readers--students, educators, psychologists, and parents alike--with information and arguments to deal with the onslaught of good, bad, deficient, and irrelevant ideas about autism.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0674025695
• ISBN 13: 9780674025691
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304