Monday, 30 May 2011

Are our ‘gold standard’ autism diagnostic instruments fit for purpose?

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In 1985, Simon Baron-Cohen, Alan Leslie and Uta Frith published a landmark paper entitled “Does the autistic child have a theory of mind?...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Scientific communication: the Comment option

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1. Think of something interesting to say 2. Hit the link saying ‘comment’. 3. Find you have to register. Enter first na...
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Monday, 16 May 2011

Autism diagnosis in cultural context

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A review of Isabel’s World by Roy Richard Grinker In 1993, when Roy Grinker’s daughter, Isabel, was two years old she did not talk or ge...
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

The X and Y of sex differences

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Why and how are men and women different? My interest in this topic is fuelled by my research on neurodevelopmental disorders of languag...
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Thursday, 21 April 2011

The burqa ban: what's a liberal response?

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© www.CartoonStock.com Most liberal-thinking people regard it as a given that we should respect and tolerate the beliefs of others...
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011

A short nerdy post about use of percentiles in statistical analyses

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Results from psychological tests can be expressed in various ways. Percentiles are a popular format in clinical reports, because they can be...
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Saturday, 9 April 2011

Special educational needs: will they be met by the new Green Paper proposals?

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Many children with disabilities in the UK are not getting the help they need. The campaigning group Whizz-Kidz states: “ There are around...
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Sunday, 20 March 2011

The expansion of research regulators: an evolutionary perspective

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Reading about evolution has made me think about why some professions grow and thrive while others die out. I'm intrigued by the expans...
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