1. Bearss K, Burrell TL, Stewart L, Scahill L. {{Erratum to: Parent Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder: What’s in a Name?}}. {Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev};2015 (Apr 4)
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2. Goldschmidt J, Song HJ. {{At-Risk and Underserved: A Proposed Role for Nutrition in the Adult Trajectory of Autism}}. {J Acad Nutr Diet};2015 (Apr 1)
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3. Radley KC, Ford WB, McHugh MB, Dadakhodjaeva K, O’Handley RD, Battaglia AA, Lum JD. {{Brief Report: Use of Superheroes Social Skills to Promote Accurate Social Skill Use in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder}}. {J Autism Dev Disord};2015 (Apr 5)
The current study evaluated the use of Superheroes Social Skills to promote accurate use of discrete social skills in training and generalization conditions in two children with autism spectrum disorder. Participants attended a twice weekly social skills training group over 5 weeks, with lessons targeting nonverbal, requesting, responding, and conversation skills. A multiple probe across social skills design, replicated across participants, was utilized to assess the effects of participation of the intervention on skill accuracy. Following introduction of the intervention, participants demonstrated abrupt improvements in skill accuracy in both training and generalization conditions. Additionally, parental reports of participant social functioning indicated improvements following participation in the intervention. Limitations and future directions are discussed.
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4. Rios C, Costa Andrada B. {{The changing face of autism in Brazil}}. {Cult Med Psychiatry};2015 (Apr 5)
At the end of 2012, after intensive lobbying by parent activist associations, a federal law recognized autism as a « disability for all legal purposes » in Brazil. Defining autism as a disability was more than a change of legal status to guarantee social benefits. It was also a political maneuver, orchestrated by parent associations, aimed to take the responsibility for treatment away from the public mental health network of services. This article examines the controversies that have set parent associations in direct antagonism with mental health professionals in the public health system. We draw from ethnographic data and theoretical discussions in the field of disability studies to situate these controversies within the context of a larger debate on the relationship between health, rights, and citizenship. We found similarities between the ethical and political goals of parent activists and mental health professionals in Brazil, but we argue that the main cause of dissent is the role that each of these social actors assigns to identity politics in their clinical and political projects.
