ABSTRACT
Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped Children) is North Carolina’s statewide programme serving people with ASD and their families. The programme was initially funded by the Federal Government in 1966. At that point, ASD was viewed as an emotional disorder and parents were seen as the main cause. Terms like ‘refrigerator mother’ were commonly used to describe these parents and convey how cold, aloof and sometimes rejecting behaviours might cause ASD in their children.
