Ellen Herman

Department of History, University of Oregon

 

HIST 460/560, SPRING 2013

WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR 4-WEEK UNIT ON AUTISM

TOPICS

Americans with Disabilities Act

Asperger syndrome

Attachment paradigm

Autism in adulthood

Autism in the DSM

Autism epidemic (statistics, prevalence, incidence)

Buck v. Bell

Deinstitutionalization

developmental disability

Education for the Handicapped Act

Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title VI

Education for All Handicapped Children Act

facilitated communication

eugenics

feeble-minded children

mental deficiency

mental retardation

Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia

mindblindness, “theory of mind”

neurodiversity

normalization

parent advocacy and activism

parent memoirs

Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

psychoanalysis

psychogenesis

Self-advocacy

special education

"theory of mind"

PEOPLE

Asperger, Hans

Bateson, Gregory

Bender, Lauretta

Bettelheim, Bruno

Bleuler, Eugen

Bowlby, John

Bronston, William

Despert, J. Louise

Donald T, aka Donald Gray Triplett

Dybwad, Gunnar

Evans, Dale

Frith, Uta

Kanner, Leo

Kennedy, Rosemary

Lettick, Amy

Lovaas, Ivar

Levy, David

Park, Clara Claiborne

Rimland, Bernard

Rutter, Michael

Tinbergen, Niko and Elisabeth

Willowbrook State School

Wing, Lorna

Wolfensberger, Wolf

ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Child Psychiatry

The National Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Retarded Children, now called the Arc

The National Society for Autistic Children, now called the Autism Society of America