Autism and gender: from refrigerator mothers to computer geek

Kumar, Santosh (2016) Autism and gender: from refrigerator mothers to computer geek. Language and Language Teaching, 5 (2). pp. 64-67. ISSN 2277-307X

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Abstract

Autism and Gender is the outcome of a workshop on "Science and its Publics" at the Rhetoric Society of American Summer Institute at Pennsylvania State University. The discourse on autism has so far been dominated by a medical perspective. The medical model of disability situates disability in the individual and suggests medical intervention, which leaves not only a gap between the knowledge of autism and the experience of people and individuals around them "but stories as well: stories about children affected, about parents struggling to come to terms with a diagnosis, about autistic individuals and their lives."

Item Type:	Articles in APF Magazines
Authors:	Kumar, Santosh
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Autism, Gender, Medical disability, Parenthood
Subjects:	Language
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > University Publications > Language and Language Teaching
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/1461
Publisher URL:	http://apfstatic.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-...

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