So excited that this paper is now out, inviting school-based practitioners to reflect on ableist langauge in schools. You can download the accept version for free here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

NEW PRE-PRINT ALERT! Taylor Burns did an incredible MSc project this year with me on Identity distress as contributing to the effects of masking on autistic people's mental health doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… 1/

New article out with Drs. Phan & Truong: Addressing Stigma-Related Health Disparities for Autistic Individuals Through Cultural Competemility: Insights from Research and Lived Experience, doi.org/10.1007/s11920…

Millions of mice killed yearly - why? Manager of largest funder for autism studies involving rodents, "when asked to give an example of a tangible quality of life improvement," paused. “I struggle to think of examples across all of psychiatry, frankly.” tinyurl.com/5fx32exw 1/

An analysis of decision-making: conceptual model by Mathieu Giroux draws on lived experience to describe decisions & reflections around camouflaging. This can guide decisions about social choices Université de Montréal McGill University NEW, FREE to 14 Nov: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

Autistic (vs non-autistic) adults were not "slower or more error-prone... during perspective taking and/or belief reasoning" but "committed significantly fewer mistakes" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… "findings cannot be explained in terms of simplistic deficit-based notions of autism"

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT: CW: Abuse. Two papers out today in Autism In Adulthood from our Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network funded project on supporting autistic adults who have experienced intimate violence. The first paper focuses on meaning-making, and the second on intervention 🧵Thread (& links) incoming.

What is neurodiversity? What does it mean for how we each go about our daily activities? We've written an article for young people, but hopefully a useful primer for all :) By Dr Alyssa M. Alcorn, Katie Cebula, Sue Fletcher-Watson and I for Frontiers for Young Minds kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

"I highlighted systemic ableism as a key barrier to higher education." Juliette Gudknecht spoke to That's TV about speaking at a recent UNESCO event on breaking barriers in higher education for people with disabilities.

Lifetime stressor exposure is related to suicidality in autistic adults: A multinational study journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

How autistic groups build towers: "every member... participated in the tasks" "no participants... built a separate tower from the rest of the group" & "no...group ever rebuilt a tower after already beginning one" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… unlike nonautistic & mixed groups (Table 4)

Rapport in same and mixed neurotype groups of autistic and non-autistic adults journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… By Sarah, Noah Sasson, Dr Catherine Crompton, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Dani_Ropar, Michelle Dodd & colleagues

New paper alert! Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in Nature Human Behaviour. nature.com/articles/s4156… THREAD! 🧵⬇️

Psychology PhD student Sarah Foster, who is autistic, is the corresponding author of a study published in Autism Journal that examined four-person group interactions among neurotypical, autistic and mixed groups of individuals. | UT Dallas Research and Innovation School of BBS at UTD news.utdallas.edu/health-medicin…

"autistic and non-autistic people did not differ in their ability to share information with others of the same neurotype" but "this study did not find the expected breakdown in information transmission in mixed-neurotype interactions" journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… 3-site UK & US study

Verbal Collaboration in Same- and Mixed-Neurotype Groups of Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults by Sarah et al. examined verbal collaboration during a group tower-building task among autistic and non-autistic adults (1/) NEW FREE to Aug 28 liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…