About The Author
The author is a registered nurse (learning disabilities), qualifying as such in December 1989. He has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings, both residential and community, with a wide variety of service users (those who are on the autism spectrum, those with sensory impairments, those whose behaviour ‘challenges services’, those who require forensic services and care and those with mental health issues). He is a parent of a young man who is also on the autism spectrum and he himself was diagnosed at the end of 2008 as being ‘high-functioning autistic’. He holds an MEd from the University of Birmingham in special educational needs (autism). He sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Nursing and the British Journal of Health Care Assistants, and as well as having written a number of articles/papers on a wide variety of subjects including learning disabilities, care givers, spirituality and autism, he is the author of Autism and Asperger’s Conditions, published by Quay Books.
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