Redefining Autism: From Disability to Talent. This was the title of a lecture I gave, together with music therapist Nuria Escudé, at the V International Conference of the International Association for Music and Medicine last week here in Barcelona. It has been a great experience and, for a person like me who loves to spend as much time as possible alone and doesn’t really love being surrounded by a busy crowd, it’s been a great achievement. But there are two …
Category: Autism and Music
Self-stimulatory behaviors, also called stimming, are one of the typical features of autism. They are repetitive, stereotyped movements of the whole body (rocking, spinning) or just one part of it (flapping …