World Autism Awareness Week 26th March - 2nd April 2018

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive the world and interact with others.

Autism is a spectrum condition. Autistic people see, hear and feel the world differently to other people. All autistic people share certain difficulties, but being autistic will affect them in different ways. Some autistic people also have learning disabilities, mental health issues or other conditions, meaning people need different levels of support.

There are around 700,000 autistic people in the UK - that's more than 1 in 100. People from all nationalities and cultural, religious and social backgrounds can be autistic, although it appears to affect more men than women.

For this reason, The National Autistic Society (NAS), World Autism Awareness Week aims to draw attention to the 700,000 people living with autism in the UK – both to educate those unaware of the condition, and to help make the world friendlier to those who are affected by it.

For more information regarding Autism, please visit the National Autistic Society and NHS Choices websites: http://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/world-autism-awareness-week.aspx https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/autism/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from Autism, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS

• Autism: a very short introduction / by Uta Frith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Also available as an ebook.

• Diagnosing autism spectrum disorders; a lifespan perspective / by Donald P. Gallo (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). E-book.

• How to understand autism - the easy way / by Alexander Durig (Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2005). Ebook.

• Merritt's Neurology / by  Elan D Louis; Stephan A Mayer; Lewis P Rowland 13th edition (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010) [12th edition also available as an e-book]

• Autism and its medical management : a guide for parents and professionals / by Michael G. Chez (London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008)

• Re-thinking autism: diagnosis, identity and equality / by Katherine Runswick-Cole; Rebecca Mallett; Sami Timmi (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2016)

• Autism spectrum disorders : a transactional developmental perspective / by Amy M Wetherby; Barry M Prizant (Baltimore: P.H. Brookes Pub. 2000)

JOURNALS

• Autism Research and Treatment (Cairo : Hindawi Pub. Corp.). Available as a Keele ejournal 2010 onwards, and NHS ejournal 2009 onwards.

• Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (New York : Springer US). Available in print 1992 – 2010. Also available as a Keele ejournal 1971 onwards, and NHS ejournal 1993 onwards with a 1 year embargo.

• Molecular Autism (London : BioMed Central ). Available as a Keele and NHS ejournal 2010 onwards.

• Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Amsterdam : Elsevier Science). Available as a Keele ejournal 2007 onwards.

• Autism (London : Sage Publications). Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Herb Brody, “Autism”, Nature, 2012, Vol.491(7422), p.S1. Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.

• Tan, Catherine D., “I'm a normal autistic person, not an abnormal neurotypical": Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis as biographical illumination”, Social Science & Medicine, January 2018, 197, pp.161-167. Available via Keele ejournals.

• Stewart, Mary ; Petrou, Alexandra ; Ota, Mitsuhiko, “Categorical Speech Perception in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions”, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018, 48(1), pp.72-82. Available via Keele ejournals.

• Helps, Sarah ; Newsom-Davis, I. C ; Callias, M, “Autism”, Autism, 1999, 3(3), pp.287-298. Available via Keele ejournals.

• Hermawati, D. ; Rahmadi, F.A. ; Sumekar, T.A. ; Winarni, T.I., “Early electronic screen exposure and autistic-like symptoms.”, Intractable Rare Dis Res. Intractable and rare diseases research, 2018, 7(1), pp.69-71. Available via NHS ejournals.

• Jolly, AA. “Handle with Care: Top Ten Tips a Nurse Should Know Before Caring For a Hospitalized Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder.”, Pediatric Nursing, 2015, 41(1):11-22. Available via NHS & Keele ejournals.

• Hategan, A. ; Bourgeois, J.A. ; Goldberg, J., “Aging with autism spectrum disorder: an emerging public health problem.”, International Psychogeriatrics, 2017,29(4), pp.695-697. Available via NHS ejournals.

• Lewis, L.F., “A Mixed Methods Study of Barriers to Formal Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults.”, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017, 47(8), pp.2410-2424.

• Van de Cruys, Sander ; Van Der Hallen, Ruth ; Wagemans, Johan, “Disentangling signal and noise in autism spectrum disorder”, Brain and Cognition, March 2017, 112, pp.78-83. Available via Keele ejournals.

• Yi, Li ; Quinn, Paul C. ; Fan, Yuebo ; Huang, Dan et al, “Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder scan own-race faces differently from other-race faces”, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2016, 141, p.177. Available via Keele ejournals.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

NHS Choices – Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/autism/

NHS Choices - ‘Autism’ search results https://www.nhs.uk/Search/?q=Autism

Autism - NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=autism&sp=on

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