Acknowledgements
This research was completed by Emma Taylor as part of a Doctorate in Clinical
Psychology at University College London, supervised by Mary Target and Tony Charman.
Funding was provided by the UCL Sub-department of Clinical Health Psychology and the
UCL Graduate School. We are grateful to Liz Allison for assistance with coding
interviews, and Sam Taylor for assistance with transcribing. Many thanks to all those who
helped with recruitment, including Ben Corden, Rebecca Chilvers, Nick Keene, Steve
Carnaby, Ken Greaves, David Moat, Mark Dixon, Angela Dyer, and all at Oxford Aspies,
Barnet Mencap, NAS Harrow and Autism London. Above all, we are grateful to all those
who took part in the research.
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