Sue Fletcher-Watson is Senior Research Fellow at the Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, and leads the Development/Autism/Research/Technology, or DART, lab group. She has been awarded the British Psychological Society Margaret Donaldson Prize and a certificate of excellence from Autism Rights Group Highland for "amplification and inclusion of autistic voices".

Francesca Happé (FBA FMedSci) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. She has worked in autism research for over 30 years, was President of the International Society for Autism Research and has been awarded the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal, the Experimental Psychology Society Prize and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award.

Preface

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - The History of Autism

Chapter 3 - Autism at the Behavioural Level?

Chapter 4 - Autism at the Biological Level

Chapter 5 - Autism at the Cognitive Level: What makes a Good Theory?

Chapter 6 - Autism at the Cognitive Level: Primary Deficit Models

Chapter 7 - Autism at the Cognitive Level: Developmental Trajectory Models

Chapter 8 - Autism at the Cognitive Level: Domain-General Information Processing Models

Chapter 9 - The Impact of Cognitive Models on Autism Understanding and Practice

Chapter 10 - Looking to the Future

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