Category: Autism FAQs

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Discussing Autism with a Child

by Guy Shahar 7th April, 2017 Introducing a child to their autism is a major step.  Guy Shahar shares his experience and reflections on how this might optimally be done. Done in the right way at the right time, the initial conversation with a child about their autism can set

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What is Autism, Really?

by Guy Shahar Published: 5th July, 2016 To many who come across autism in passing, it is considered a disability, through which people are rendered in some way deficient, having the handicap of not being able to function as normal people and (this part is usually unconscious) of being less

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Is Autism a Disability?

by Guy Shahar Published 6th June, 2016 There have been a number of newspaper articles about Transforming Autism over the past couple of weeks, mostly based around this press release about the launch of the book.  They quote me, usually in a headline, as saying that autism is not a

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