Autism and Physical Disability : Dual Experiences, Challenges, and Inclusion Solutions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

B. Lawson, Wenn.

Series:

Disability Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Lived Places Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

A journey by one autistic older adult of life with autism and physical disability. A personal account that includes childhood years, schooling, College years, married life, birthing children, gender transition and discovery of sexuality, as well as upon immigration, medical encounters and culture challenges. This story also illustrates coming to know one's autism as separate from the textbook account and the impact of physical disability on an individual life as well as upon the immediate family.

Contents:

FrontCover

Half-Title

Title Page

Copyright Information

Abstract

Table of Contents

Content warning

Learning objectives

Foreword

Prologue

General introduction

1 Autism for me and my physical disability

Introduction

The monotropic lens

A. The social and communication domain

B. The domain of rigid and repetitive interests and/or behaviour

C. Characteristics must be present in the early developmental period (but may not be fully seen until social demand exceeds capacity or may be masked by learned strategies in later life (See: Holliday-Willey, 1999).

D. Characteristics cause clinically significant differences in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning.

E. These differences are not better explained by intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) or global developmental delay. There are varying levels of support needed

Visiting a clinic or support group

Physical disability as understood within this text

Autism assessment

Autism theories

Monotropism and polytropism

What does this mean for being physically disabled?

Some examples (e.g., at the dentist's)

Not autistic, possibly a conflict

Wenn and the builder

Wenn and the anesthetist

Now and next

Wenn's experience

Sight, hearing, auditory processing, chronic pain

My eyesight

My auditory processing disorder

When the sound is too loud

My chronic pain

Conclusion

2 Societal expectations of human behaviour and what's different in autism and physical disability

Wenn's psoriatic arthritis

For example, Luke says

Monotropic attention compared to polytropic attention

The double empathy problem

Ableism

According to Wikipedia

Backdraft and self-compassion

Older autistics and emergency preparedness.

Wenn, when the fire alarm went off

What to do if, what to do when, and how to do it

Autistic adults and autistic children

Wenn's visit to the emergency department in his local town

Wenn's experience of one university that catered to Wenn's needs, compared to another that was less accommodating

Increasing disability

Grocery shopping

3 A picture of autistic communication and disability

Communication

Non-speaking Autistic

Sensory differences

Misophonia

Experience of pain and/or of being out of energy

Inertia

The medical centre

4 Physical disability, the demand avoidant profile of Autism, interoception, and gender: Daily impact

The PDA profile

Object permanence (OP)

For Wenn it was

5 Autism, physical disability, and sexuality

What is sexuality

Sensory profiling

Intellect and communication style

Decisions about the level of education and what is needed?

Role play?

Gender formation

6 It should be 'nothing about me without me': Autism, physical disability, and ageing

Recommended discussion questions

References

Recommended further reading &amp

resources

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-917566-86-7

1-917566-85-9

9781917566858

OCLC:

1555314104