975 Dr. Carmit-Noa Shpigelman Chapter on page 743 A senior lecturer at the Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Israel. She specializes in disability studies and links this field to mental health, rehabilitation, and digital technologies. Her research focuses on the social and emotional aspects of living with a lifelong disability, community participation of adults with disabilities, and their quality of life. As a mother with a physical disability, Dr. Shpigelman is particularly interested in exploring the parenthood of adults with disabilities. carmits@univ.haifa.ac.il Prof. Cory Shulman Chapter on page 153 Cory Shulman began her academic career at the Hebrew University in 1997, where her research interests are an extension of more than thirty years of clinical work with individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her research interests focus on children, adolescents, and adults with ASD and include examining life course trajectories of children with a suspicion of autism, characterizing diagnostic and developmental trajectories and profiles. She is the head of the Autism Center at Hebrew University, a unique institution which combines research, training, clinical services and interaction with policymakers. She also heads a large research project examining differences between boys and girls with ASD diagnoses, with important implications for diagnosis and treatment because the two sexes present significantly different profiles and previous work in the field has been based predominantly on patterns characteristic of boys. Another research project focuses on ASD and other co-occurring conditions such as intellectual disabilities, anxiety and attention disorders. cory.shulman@mail.huji.ac.il Dr. Amanda Sinai, MbChB Chapter on page 273 A psychiatrist with speciality training in Intellectual Disability. She works at the Dual Diagnosis Unit at Beit Issie Shapiro and at a specialist clinic for adults with Autism and/or Intellectual Disabilities at Maney Hayeshusa Hospital. amandasinai@doctors.org.uk
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