Optimal outcomes and autism continued

My word. That paper by Prof. Deborah Fein and colleagues* (open-access) which I blogged about last week has certainly made a splash both in the media and cyberspace. Opinions abound it seems about what the paper said, what the paper didn't say and what the implications of an 'optimal outcome' (OO) group might mean for autism spectrum disorders, its description, its nature and how it is perceived more generally.I've followed quite a few of the opinion pieces on the Fein paper which have […]