World Autism Awareness Day
Empowering Women and Girls with Autism
We're celebrating everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder today, as well as their parents, teachers, carers and everyone else who supports and cares for them. This year's theme, however, has a special focus on empowering women and girls with autism. Females with autism can manifest vastly different signs, and face different problems and challenges, to boys and men, and this can sometimes make diagnosis much more difficult. An article today, by clinical psychologist Vicki Gibbs at Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect), further discusses these challenges: What if Autism is different for girls?