This is the title of a special issue of the E-Journal of Applied Psychology. David Austin is the editor of the issue, and he is alarmed by the dramatic increases in the rate of autism in children in recent years. He writes, "In 1943, Leo Kanner wrote the first paper reporting on 11 cases of a seemingly new disorder that would come to be known as autism. In the 60 plus years since that paper, many theories of cause have been advanced and countless therapies tried and, yet, the tragic position we find ourselves in right now is that autism is of unknown aetiology and there are no treatments that may validly lay claim to cure or recover.".
Austin has taken a broad minded approach to the articles he has chosen for this issue, addressing autism in unusual and innovative ways.
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