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Michelle Dawson
Introduction
Template:Autism rights movement Michelle Dawson (born 1961) is an autistic person and an autism researcher.[1][2] She has written a paper[3] challenging the ethical and scientific foundations of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)-based autism interventions. She also challenged the medical necessity of ABA for autistics in the Supreme Court of Canada in Auton v. British Columbia, 3 S.C.R. 657.[4] Dawson’s work has generated considerable controversy.
References
References
- ↑ Woodford, Gillian (May 15, 2006, Volume 3, No. 9). “Rebels debunk autism weird science: Scientific mavericks rethink their ‘neurocentric’ attitudes about diagnosis and treatment”. National Review of Medicine. Retrieved 2007-11-08. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Bower, Bruce (July 7, 2007, Vol. 172, No. 1, p. 4). “Hidden Smarts: Abstract thought trumps IQ scores in autism”. Science News Online. Retrieved 2007-11-08. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Dawson, Michelle (2004-01-18). “The Misbehaviour of Behaviourists”. No Autistics Allowed.
- ↑ “Michelle Dawson on Autism in Society, Law and Science”. Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies. Retrieved 2007-11-07.