Michael Fitzgerald & Brendan O'Brien

Michael Fitzgerald is the first professor of child and adolescent psychiatry in Ireland. His special interest is Asperger Syndrome. A clinical and research consultant to the Irish Society for Autism and an honorary member of the Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations, he has a doctorate in autism and has been a researcher in this field since 1973. He trained at St. Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin; Chicago Medical School; and The Maudsley Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London. He has clinically diagnosed over 1,500 individuals with autism and Asperger Syndrome, and has served on the Government Task Force on Autism and the Family. He has contributed to international journals on autism and is the author of over 120 publications, including 16 books.

Brendan O’Brien is a freelance writer and editor with an interest in autism. He lives in County Cavan, Ireland, with his wife and two teenage children.

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