Autism As Context Blindness

Despite years of study and advanced technologies, we still do not fully understand how the "typical" brain works, much less how an autistic brain works. And while we have become increasingly familiar with the term autistic thinking, people with autism are still misunderstood, leading to frustration, depression and missed opportunities to reach one's potential.According to Peter Vermeulen, treatment of autism is still too focused on behavior and minimally focused on observation or determining the way of thinking that leads to the behavior. In this groundbreaking book, Vermeulen explains in everyday terms how the autistic brain functions with a particular emphasis on the apparent lack of sensitivity to and awareness of the context in which things happen. Full of examples, the book examines "context" as it relates to observation, social interactions, communication and knowledge.

Peter Vermeulen, MA, PhD, has more than 25 years of experience in the field of autism spectrum disorders. He worked for the Flemish Autism Society and was for several years the director of the autism home training service in Flanders. Currently he is a senior lecturer and consultant at Autisme Centraal, a training center in Gent. He is editor of Autisme Centraal and member of the editorial board of the Flemish-Dutch Journal of Special Education, Child Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. He has written 15 books on autism, some of them translated into different languages.