2011
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7 October 2011Comments ( 0 )
A special performance on Sunday of The Lion King created a comfortable environment for children with autism and their families to enjoy the theater.
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10 May 2011Comments ( 0 )A new documentary blasts misperceptions about nonverbal people with autism, showing that they are capable of intelligence, wit and empathy even as their disorder chains them "like a beast."
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15 March 2011Comments ( 0 )The suggestion that some people with autism might be creative or artistic surprises us. It shouldn’t.
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29 December 2010Comments ( 0 )The old debate about nature vs. nurture is given a new twist in Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender. Fine argues that contemporary neuroscientists, like their predecessors, use science to reinforce traditional gender roles. SFARI offers two perspectives on her argument.
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29 December 2010Comments ( 0 )In her new book, Cordelia Fine argues that the brain is sexed by society, not by biology. But by quoting only studies that support her perspective, she abandons objectivity for polemic.
