Excited to share that Dr. Brittany N. Hand and I have a newly funded MPI study on autistic older adults! Study will develop #MachineLearning derived index to identify autistic older adults at high risk of poor aging outcomes The National Institute on Aging (NIA) OSU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Waisman Center UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work 🧵 1/5

#ResearchParticipants wanted! Help shape #autism transition research. We need autistic young adults (18-29), especially Black & Brown, LGBTQIA+, non-speaking, and female identified. Also parents/care partners & providers. Share your experiences. Contact us at [email protected]

Please consider signing on to this letter to contest the NIMHD Advisory Council's recent rejection of recs to designate people with disabilities as a ‘health disparity population’.    Signatures are due by noon ET this Friday, 9/8. Please share widely. docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/…

To every future autistic ADHD doctor: your Neurokin are waiting for you with open arms at Autistic Doctors International Your neurodivergent strengths are just what the medical profession needs! 💛♾️

News: NIH designates people with disabilities as a population with health disparities dlvr.it/SwdB4Z

We have a new preprint, "Unpacking Ableist Language in Schools: Suggestions for School-based Practitioners". We want to help educators begin conversations about how ableism is pervasive in schools, and reflected in/perpetuated by the language they use osf.io/73ykq 1/3

Clarivate just released the 2023 Journal Impact Factors and wow - Autism In Adulthood now has a JIF of 9.5!!! Wow! Thanks to everyone who has poured their love and energy into our journal. Goes to show the value of taking an inclusive approach to research and scholarship! Go AiA!

Reporting participatory methods and author positionality in autism New editorial from Sue Fletcher-Watson journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Congrats are in order! 🙌 #OhioStateSurg Dr. Austin Schenk and OSU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Associate Professor Dr. Brittany Hand (Dr. Brittany N. Hand) received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from NICHD News to study the effectiveness of laws in mitigating ableist discrimination in kidney transplantation.

We are thrilled to support a landmark $2.5M NIH-funded study at Ohio State University, led by Drs. Dr. Brittany N. Hand and Austin Schenk. This crucial research will assess how state laws impact organ transplant access for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 👏

>70% of citing authors misrepresent key findings on mortality in autistic people, often falsely claiming people with autism “die 16 years earlier” or have “54-yr life expectancy.” New open access paper with 𝙻𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚗 𝙱𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙

A high-profile study on autistic mortality is widely misrepresented by citing authors jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… with "potential repercussions for autistic people, including psychological distress, altered retirement planning, insurance denials, and exacerbated health disparities"

About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/41jRwd1

Development of PREPARE for Autistic Adults: An Adult Autism Training for Resident Physicians Designed with Autistic Adults and Family Members. Dr. Brittany N. Hand details a program co-designed with #autistic adults to address gap in residents' education. READ shorturl.at/P1Umf

CDMRP cuts entire autism research program for FY 2025 in a major devastating blow for #AutismResearch in the U.S. cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/202…

New ForbesWomen article perpetuates misrepresentation of findings of autistic life expectancy 𝙻𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚗 𝙱𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙 and I highlighted in a recent JAMA network open paper go.osu.edu/C5KP

New largest study found most (333/389 participants) autistic adults raised serious concerns re: genetic testing: “eugenics (281/389)…lack of trust in how genetics information would be used (125/389)…genetic testing could increase discrimination (66/389)” nature.com/articles/s4143…

Did you know the widely shared “autistic life expectancy = 54” claim is misleading and harmful? My new ForbesWomen article debunks this myth using real data, expert voices, and a more accurate outlook. forbes.com/sites/jennifer… #autistic #neurodivergentlife #neurodivergent