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Professor Simon Baron Cohen endorses Neurodiversity

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Neurodiversity, that much misunderstood, much maligned concept has been dragged through the mud for years by people determined to misunderstand it and misrepresent it. We all know who these people are. However, it also has its supporters and people determined to understand it on either a social or personal level. One such person is Professor [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Autism Research Center, Blogging, Simon Baron-Cohen | 3 Comments »

Autism Epidemic Talk

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

A couple of slap dash blog pieces appeared today both on the same subject – the so called autism epidemic. First off is Harold who writes about a series of interviews with David Kirby. David says: It’s crazy that in this debate, we’re still debating whether autism numbers are actually going up or not, which [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, David Kirby, Epidemiology, Eric Fombonne, Paul Offit, Science, Simon Baron-Cohen | 44 Comments »

Autism and gender identity

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Two abstracts from IMFAR (the International Meeting for Autism Research) caught my eye as they discussed an area I haven’t seen discussed much (if at all): gender identity and autism. The 2008 paper was from the Autism Research Centre (ARC), R.M. Jones first author, and Simon Baron-Cohen’s group: Female-to-male transsexuals and autistic traits. The second [...]

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New autism prevalence 1.5% in UK

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

A new study published (officially) tomorrow discusses ‘Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study’. Its an interesting study for quite a few reasons. Firstly, it offers a new autism prevalence of 1.5% (1 in 66). That’s the message that the press will no doubt focus on (and, as Kristina blogs, already have). And I’ve [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Autism Research Center, Epidemiology, Mark Blaxill, Science, Simon Baron-Cohen | 18 Comments »