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Developmental disabilities are often | Neurodiversity is a concept developed by persons with autism, and other conditions, this concept is an alternative view on what the condition is. The proponents of nuerodiversity do not feel that their nuerodiversity is neccessarily a disorder or an illness which requires curing. Developmental disabilities are often classified as Pervasive Developmental Disorders in abnormal psychology courses, while the opposite is often true in Developmental Disability Psychology courses (e.g. Pervasive Developmental Disorders are classified as Developmental Disabilities). In human services mental illness is seperated from developmental disorders. Developmental Disability Psychology courses give no acknowledgement of Neurodiversity in the same manner that Clinical Psychology fails to mention recovery. In the study of recovery psychology concepts such as Neurodiversity, movements like Disability rights movement, Autism Rights Movement and The Neurodiversity Movement, and groups such as Aspies For Freedom would be deserving of equal discussion and recognized as a valid source of information on the phenomena of these conditions; in the same way that recovery psychology, recognizes antipsychiatry and propsychiatry views, to sort out how clinical psychology can further produce recovery, which recovery psychology has previously failed to do. Recovery psychology would acknowledge the perspectives of those who call themselves "Aspies" who feel that they are not broken or in need of recovery. The concept in which autistic persons refer to non-autistic persons as neurotypical, or persons who force treatment on them as being a "curabie". parallels many antipsychiatry views. A course on Psychology of Developmental Disability might focus more on adaptability rather than recovery. Recovery in the context could mean anything from adaptability to being liberated from forced, unnecessary treatment that is not wanted by the person with autism, to the fight against prejudice. | ||
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Developmental Disabilities
Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity is a concept developed by persons with autism, and other conditions, this concept is an alternative view on what the condition is. The proponents of nuerodiversity do not feel that their nuerodiversity is neccessarily a disorder or an illness which requires curing. Developmental disabilities are often classified as Pervasive Developmental Disorders in abnormal psychology courses, while the opposite is often true in Developmental Disability Psychology courses (e.g. Pervasive Developmental Disorders are classified as Developmental Disabilities). In human services mental illness is seperated from developmental disorders. Developmental Disability Psychology courses give no acknowledgement of Neurodiversity in the same manner that Clinical Psychology fails to mention recovery. In the study of recovery psychology concepts such as Neurodiversity, movements like Disability rights movement, Autism Rights Movement and The Neurodiversity Movement, and groups such as Aspies For Freedom would be deserving of equal discussion and recognized as a valid source of information on the phenomena of these conditions; in the same way that recovery psychology, recognizes antipsychiatry and propsychiatry views, to sort out how clinical psychology can further produce recovery, which recovery psychology has previously failed to do. Recovery psychology would acknowledge the perspectives of those who call themselves "Aspies" who feel that they are not broken or in need of recovery. The concept in which autistic persons refer to non-autistic persons as neurotypical, or persons who force treatment on them as being a "curabie". parallels many antipsychiatry views. A course on Psychology of Developmental Disability might focus more on adaptability rather than recovery. Recovery in the context could mean anything from adaptability to being liberated from forced, unnecessary treatment that is not wanted by the person with autism, to the fight against prejudice.