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    Damian Milton

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Milton, D. (2018). Autistic Development, Trauma and Personhood: Beyond the Frame of the Neoliberal Individual. In: Runswick-Cole, K., Curran, T., Liddiard, K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9_29

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