Deficit, difference, or both? Autism and neurodiversity.
By Steven K. Kapp, K. Gillespie-Lynch, Lauren E. Sherman, T. Hutman. Developmental Psychology, 2013
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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education
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Citations in the corpus
- The Changing Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders (2016, background): “The concept of dimensionality of the ASD-related phenotype also has implications beyond epidemiology, including societal response to ASD as part of a neurodiversity continuum rather than as a disorder (97).”
- Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers (2020, background): “Stakeholders (including parents) may eventually move toward consensus on preference for identity-first language, because it is positively correlated with the growing awareness of the neurodiversity movement that also increases acceptance of and positive emotions toward autism.(65) While it is the ca”
- Neurodiversity in higher education: a narrative synthesis (2020, background): “Terms, such as ‘atypical developmental pathways’ (Kapp et al. 2013) can be challenged by the stance that ‘there is no typical mental capacity – no normal brain to which all others brains are compared’—neurodiversity simply means being ‘wired’ in a different way rather than ‘wrongly’ (Armstrong 2012 ”
- Which terms should be used to describe autism? Perspectives from the UK autism community (2016, background): “…has shown that the more people report to be aligned to notions of neurodiversity, the greater preference they show for disability-first language, although this preference was not associated with a concomitant reduction in the acknowledgement of ‘deficits’ in autism (Kapp et al., 2012).”
- Extending the Minority Stress Model to Understand Mental Health Problems Experienced by the Autistic Population (2018, methodology): “Diagnosis was self-reported, with participants reporting if they had an official diagnosis and, if so, providing the details of it following the procedure used by Kapp et al. (2013).”
- The autism predicament: models of autism and their impact on autistic identity (2021, result): “This decision was made in accordance with the recent movement within the literature towards the destigmatization of autism (Vivanti 2020; Gernsbacher 2017; beck 2018; Sinclair 2013; Silberman 2015; Kapp et al. 2013).”