Autism as metaphor: narrative and counter‐narrative
By A. Broderick, A. Ne’eman. 2008
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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research
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Citations in the corpus
- Inclusive/exclusive? Contradictory perspectives on autism and inclusion: the case for an integrative position (2011, background): “Whilst educational researchers studying autism generally argue from a needs‐based inclusionist position, and strongly defend the value of a diagnosis of autism in educational contexts, many also concede that the medical model as a lens is highly problematic (Frith 1991 ; Molloy and Vasil 2004 ) an”
- Autism, intense interests and support in school: from wasted efforts to shared understandings (2019, background): “Furthermore, while some of the school staff, in their descriptions of autistic people, had unwittingly employed “othering” terminology (Broderick and Ne’eman 2008; Hughes 2009), this positioning was occasionally altered when the benefits of supporting the intense interests of their autistic pupils w”
- Critical autism studies: exploring epistemic dialogues and intersections, challenging dominant understandings of autism (2016, unknown): “Within this perspective, autism is described within a framework of neurological diversity, as one of many variations in the functionality of the human brain (Broderick and Ne’eman 2008), including alternative social functionalities (Brownlow, O’Dell, and Bertilsdotter Rosqvist 2015).”
- Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers (2020, background): “Even recently, autism is often written about using medical model frameworks, which construe all differences associated with autism to be evidence of deficits, and advocates for curing these deficits via intervention.(51) In keeping with the medical model, autism has linguistically, culturally, and p”
- Which terms should be used to describe autism? Perspectives from the UK autism community (2016, background): “The effects of these different perceptions of autism can be directly observed in the use of narratives and metaphors of autism, which can include aligning autistic people with ‘aliens from a different world’, or references to being ‘locked inside’ (see Broderick and Ne’eman, 2008; Waltz, 2012).”