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Rosqvist, Hanna Bertilsdotter – Disability & Society, 2012
The purpose of this article is to analyse how humour and narratives about humour are used in a natural group of adults with Asperger's syndrome. Narratives about humour and use of humour in the group are analysed from a discursive psychological perspective, informed by insights from both disability studies and critical autism studies. The setting…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Foreign Countries, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Wheeler, Marc – Disability & Society, 2011
We live in a world of vast social differences. People of different ages, cultures, religions, gender and sexual orientation have, and indeed are expected to have, distinct differences in their behaviour, and in the way that they see the world. Asperger's syndrome (AS) is no different. People with AS have different personality types and have…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Social Differences, Personality Traits, Definitions
Moloney, Paul – Disability & Society, 2010
This paper questions the way in which the diagnosis of Aspergers syndrome has come to be widely accepted and used as an essentially medical category. It does so by drawing upon sociological and historical analyses of society, psychiatry and psychology, as well as the writings of service users, other practitioners in the autistic spectrum disorder…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Psychiatry, Identification
Clarke, Juanne; van Amerom, Gudrun – Disability & Society, 2007
This paper presents the results of a content, frame and discourse analysis of Internet sites concerned with Asperger's syndrome (AS). It investigated blogs written by people who have been diagnosed with AS, as well as organizations devoted to the support of people with AS and their families. The findings document the different and even…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Asperger Syndrome, Discourse Analysis
Townson, Louise; Macauley, Sue; Harkness, Elizabeth; Docherty, Andy; Dias, John; Eardley, Malcolm; Chapman, Rohhss – Disability & Society, 2007
This article presents the findings of a qualitative research project about the difficulties in accessing advocacy faced by adults labelled as having autism and Asperger's Syndrome in the Northwest of England. It is also an example of partnership working between three organisations. The article examines both the process of team-led (emancipatory)…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Research Projects, Autism, Asperger Syndrome
Baines, AnnMarie D. – Disability & Society, 2012
Contrary to views that young people with the label of autism are incapable of engaging in collective cultural practice, this article examines how they construct identities through social interactions to belong, compete, and participate. In a multi-sited ethnography of high school students with disabilities, we focused on two students as they move…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Autism, Ethnography, Youth
Bagatell, Nancy – Disability & Society, 2007
Constructing identities is a highly social, ongoing process. For individuals with disabilities this process can be particularly challenging, given the powerful negative discourses of disability. While there has been some attention given to the issue of identity and disability, there has been little attention paid to the process of identity…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Autism, Ethnography, Disabilities