What *is* autism?: "autism" versus Autistic theories: Tanya Adkin & Aucademy's Chloe 07.08.2021
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 2021-08-07

Recorded and originally aired: 07th of August 2021, 19:00 London BST; 11:00 PST: *What *is* autism?: "autism" versus Autistic theories: Tanya Adkin & Aucademy's Chloe 07.08.2021*

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In this session, Dr Chloe Farahar (she/her) and Tanya Adkin (she/her) provide a short presentation on the definitions of autism versus Autistic experience; theories of autism versus Autistic theories of Autistic experience; and critical evaluative points about the theories. 

If you want to know the diagnostic manual definitions in full: Long, boring video (1 hour 54 mins) where we read the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 2013 criteria for "autism spectrum disorder" https://youtu.be/U4jgG1e1nWI 

Dr Damian Milton's double empathy problem https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... 

Non-academic blog by Dr Melanie Heyworth explaining the double empathy problem https://www.reframingautism.com.au/mi... 

Crompton et al. papers demonstrating the double empathy problem empirically: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full... AND https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... 

Guest speaker details: 
Tanya Adkin is SEND Advocate. Tanya is also a late identified Autistic, ADHD (possibly PDA), single parent to two Autistic/PDA/ADHD children.

Find Tanya and EHCP advice via her page TanyaAdkinAutistic on Facebook (Tanya Adkin - Autistic children and young person's advocate) and group facebook.com/groups/866861860722163 (seND - free SEND and EHCP Advice). 

**Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians** 

Dr Chloe Farahar - Autistic academic, educator, and self-advocate 
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