Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mid and Later Life

About

Digby Tantam is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Health Care NHS Foundation Trust an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a chartered psychologist and a fellow of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Educated at Oxford Harvard Stanford London and the Open Universities and with a doctorate from the Institute of Psychiatry in London he started a clinic for adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders in 1980 that has continued ever since. Valerie Paradiž holds a Ph.D. in German Literature from City University of New York and has taught German and writing at Bard College Brooklyn College and the State University of New York New Paltz. She is the co-founder and director of ASPIE the School for Autistic Strength Purpose and Independence in Education and sits on the Board of Directors of GRASP the Global Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership.