Tag: Autism
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‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds? | Autism | The Guardian
Autism, Wing said, ran “from the most profoundly physically and mentally retarded person … to the most able, highly intelligent person with social impairment in its subtlest form”. But what unified everyone on the spectrum was what she and Gould called the “Triad of Impairments”: problems with social skills, reciprocal (ie give-and-take) language and “social…