Analysing police involvement in the context of autism

" About 1 in 6 people with autism interacted with police over 18 months " went one of the media headlines covering the study publi...

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Autism awareness among the young is actually quite good

The message of 'increasing awareness of autism' is still a strong one in modern times despite the label of autism officially enterin...

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World Autism Awareness Day and the CDC estimates

As designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007 ( see here ), today, Wednesday 2nd April 2014, is World Autism Awareness Day (#...

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Autism in the UK: levelling off?

A short post today based on the paper by Brent Taylor and colleagues * (open-access) adding to the considerable literature on the autism num...

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Canada and the autism prevalence rate continued

So, in my last post  this morning I was talking about the paper by Hélène Ouelette-Kuntz and colleagues * on the autism numbers game in vari...

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Canada and the autism prevalence rate

[Update: 01/07/13: Further discussion on this topic can be found here ]. The autism numbers game has been a long running discussion in many ...

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