INDEX
| ABA. See applied behavior analysis | |
| Adams, Christina, 179–80 | |
| ADI. See Autism Diagnostic Interview | |
| ADOS. See Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule | |
| adults with autism, 234; children of, 162, 286n100; medical problems of, 177; neurodiversity movement among, 234–35, 286nn97–104; self-advocacy by, 7, 11, 15, 125–26, 136, 161–64, 286n88; writings of, 161–62, 249n83, 286nn97–98, 295n57. See also self-advocacy movements | |
| advocacy activities, 14–18, 23–24, 49–54; for biomedical treatments, 167–96; biosociality in, 16–18, 142–43, 184–85, 193–96, 240nn50–52, 241n57; for educational rights, 127; embrace of autistic culture in, 143; genetic citizenship debates in, 16–17, 23–24, 241nn57, 59; for genetic research, 149–52, 155–60; internet spaces of, 180–81, 207; for mental patients’ rights, 122; moral personhood debates in, 7, 11, 125–26, 143; neurodiversity debates in, 125, 155, 161–65, 176, 234–35, 273nn1, 3, 286n87; parent roles in, 15–16, 23–24, 53–54, 121–23, 267nn66–67, 273n7; political economy of, 17–18, 49–54, 242n62; on vaccines, 200–203, 206–7. See also names of specific organizations, e.g. Autism Society of America; self-advocacy movements | |
| affective practices. See love | |
| Aichhorn, August, 69, 79 | |
| AIDS research, 156–57 | |
| Akerley, Mary S., 130–32, 276n30 | |
| Allen, Woody, 254n5 | |
| allergies/immune dysfunction, 47, 164, 188–92, 204–5 | |
| alternative practices. See biomedical treatments | |
| Alzheimer’s disease, 149, 280n33 | |
| amateur therapists. See parents’ treatment activities | |
| American Academy of Pediatrics, 216 | |
| American Psychiatric Association. See Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | |
| Amsterdamska, Olga, 242n60 | |
| amygdala, 153, 155 | |
| animal models, 149–53, 209, 281nn42–43 | |
| antiviral medication, 178 | |
| apoptosis, 208–9 | |
| applied behavior analysis (ABA), 95, 108–9, 114, 121, 123–24, 172–73, 267n75. See also behavior modification techniques | |
| ARI. See Autism Research Institute | |
| Asperger, Hans, 37, 44–45, 50–51, 163, 243n25, 247n64, 278n4 | |
| Asperger syndrome, 12, 21, 37, 160, 243n25; diagnostic markers for, 50–52; gendered context of, 44–46, 247n64; self-advocacy in, 52, 161–64 | |
| autism (definitions), 2–3, 48–49, 107, 237n4 | |
| Autism Biomedical Discussion Group (ABMD), 180–81, 295n54 | |
| Autism Birth Cohort (the ABC Project), 288n113 | |
| Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI), 54–55, 59, 60, 194, 252n116 | |
| Autism Diagnostic Interview–Revised (ADI–R), 57, 148, 280n25 | |
| Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), 54–57, 59, 60, 148, 194, 252nn116, 119, 280n25 |
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