Re-Thinking Autism Yonca Tiknaz Sara looks to capture those

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This practical guide equips practitioners to support families and carers in developing effective toilet training programmes and provide continued help with analysing and addressing problems that occur

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This practical resource will provide professionals who diagnose

Re-Thinking Autism Yonca Tiknaz Sara looks to capture thoseChallenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century. Arguing that autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of the medical model that has produced a perpetually marginalising