Author: Aimee Grant, Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University

[ad_1] The phrases “autism spectrum” or “on the spectrum” have become part of everyday language. They are often used as different ways of referring to someone who is “neurodivergent”. The term was coined in the 1980s by psychiatrist Dr Lorna Wing, whose work transformed how autism was understood in the UK. At the time, her […]