Mitigating Trauma in Autism: A Mock Research Design

Introduction

Autism was first described at the turn of the twentieth century (Price, 2022). In 1943, Leo Kanner described a disorder then called Kannar Syndrome and began studying it (National Autistic Society, 2023). “Kannar Syndrome” eventually became “Asperger’s” and is now known as autism spectrum disorder, or ASD (National Autistic Society, 2023). In the decades since researchers have been steadily learning more about this developmental disability. One in four Americans -or 26% of the population- are disabled (CDC, 2018) Of that…