Autistic Scholars Project

Nathalie Alexandra Penglin Tcherdakoff, Grace Jane Stangroome, Ashlee Milton, Catherine Holloway, Marta E. Cecchinato, Antonella Nonnis, Tessa Eagle, Dena Al Thani, Hwajung Hong, Anna Williams*Autistic author. Learn more… (2025). Designing for Neurodiversity in Academia: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Computer Interaction. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-5.

Naba Rizvi, Taggert Smith, Tanvi Vidyala, Mya Bolds, Harper Strickland, Andrew Begel, Anna Williams*Autistic author. Learn more…, Imani Munyaka (2025). “I Hadn't Thought About That”: Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics & Neurodivergence. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 3385-3399.

Anna Williams*Autistic author. Learn more…, Philosophy Documentation Center (2021). I, Misfit: Empty Fortresses, Social Robots, and Peculiar Relations in Autism Research. In Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (pp. 451-478). Philosophy Documentation Center.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha*Autistic author. Learn more…, Emma Bigé, Harriet de Gouge (2024). Encore des rêves indociles de justice handie pour la fin du monde. Multitudes, n° 94(1), 63-68.

Daniela Wachholtz, Veronica Vidal, Oswin Latimer*Autistic author. Learn more…, Mariluz Jiménez (2023). Meaningful Social Interactions as a Foundation for Affection and Learning for Autistic Individuals. In Affectivity and Learning (pp. 645-662). Springer Nature Switzerland.

Daniela Wachholtz, Veronica Vidal, Oswin Latimer*Autistic author. Learn more…, Mariluz Jiménez (2024). Bedeutungsvolle soziale Interaktionen als Grundlage für Zuneigung und Lernen für autistische Personen. In Affektivität und Lernen (pp. 721-740). Springer Nature Switzerland.

Melanie Yergeau*Autistic author. Learn more… (2009). Circle Wars: Reshaping the Typical Autism Essay. Disability Studies Quarterly, 30(1).

Paul Heilker, Melanie Yergeau*Autistic author. Learn more… (2011). Autism and Rhetoric. College English, 73(5), 485-497.

Melanie Yergeau*Autistic author. Learn more… (2013). Clinically Significant Disturbance: On Theorists Who Theorize Theory of Mind. Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(4).

Melanie Yergeau*Autistic author. Learn more… (2015). Occupying Autism: Rhetoric, Involuntarity, and the Meaning of Autistic Lives. In Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability (pp. 83-95). Springer Netherlands.

Melanie Yergeau*Autistic author. Learn more… (2018). Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Duke University Press.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Melanie Yergeau*Autistic author. Learn more… (2019). Empirical failures of the claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 7(1), 102-118.

Melanie Yergeau*Autistic author. Learn more… (2020). Cassandra Isn’t Doing the Robot: On Risky Rhetorics and Contagious Autism. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50(3), 212-221.

Alyssa Hillary Zisk*Autistic author. Learn more…, Lily Konyn*Autistic author. Learn more…, David Niemeijer (2025). What terms should we use for AAC and the people who use it? Results from a terminology survey. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1-12.

Michael Poplin, Mackenzie Hughes, Bernadette McCrory, Nadezhda Modyanova*Autistic author. Learn more… (2026). Achieving Sub-Frame Precision Speech Segmentation Through Computational Multimodal Analysis: Bridging Neuroscience Requirements with Engineering Solutions. 2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA), 1-6.