So what is PDA? 👇👇 Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) was a term first penned in the 1980’s by Professor Elizabeth Newson. She began investigating a complex group of children who were similar to each other but confusing to professionals in that the children shared some common challenges with autistic children yet were not so typical in their presentation. However, in studying these individuals she began to notice some similarities that all of the children shared – the central feature being ‘a

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