Autism and COVID-19: Strategies for Supporters to Help Autistics and Their Families
About this ebook
Bennett and Goodall address vaccine hesitancy among autistics and parents raising autistic children, the experiences of autistics living with COVID-19 disease and parenting an autistic child during the COVID-19 pandemic, synthesising the data about the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of autistic, their families, and those that provide autistics with medical assistance.
Autism and COVID-19 both reviews the existing literature and presents new findings from a survey distributed to autistics and parents of autistics during the pandemic, all of which offer a unique and timely contribution to researchers, academics, practitioners, and those working with autistics and their families.
About the author
Matthew Bennett holds a PhD in Disability Studies from Flinders University, South Australia. He has also lectured in Disability Studies at Griffith University, Queensland. Matthew is an active advocate for the rights of people on the autism spectrum.
Emma Goodall is an autism author, researcher and consultant in South Australia. Emma is reviewing programs and developing and implementing research-based policy and programs to enable students on the autism spectrum to flourish, combining her professional and academic skills and knowledge of her lived experience of Aspergers.
