Barriers and facilitators to supporting Canadian autistic postsecondary students: Experiences of accessible learning staff and administrators

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Coombs, E., Vincent, J., McMorris, C. A., & Ames, M. E. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to supporting Canadian autistic postsecondary students: Experiences of accessible learning staff and administrators. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 109, 102260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102260

Publication date: 26 Oct 2023 Added to AutiHub: 9 Aug 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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Publication authors
4
Publication authors identified as autistic
1 / 4 (25.0%)
  1. Emily Coombs *
  2. Jonathan Vincent
  3. Carly A. McMorris
  4. Megan E. Ames

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These indicators describe the bibliography cited by this publication. An author name is counted each time it appears in one cited reference, so the same person can be counted more than once. Names not yet linked to an author already present in AutiHub are treated as unknown, not as non-autistic. Last computed: 2 Oct 2026 17:07.

Cited references
42
With a DOI
34
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
7
6 / 42 (14.3%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
1 / 42 (2.4%)
References with detected author names
41 / 42 (97.6%)
Without detected author names
1
Without a structured title
1
Without a stable identifier
6
References with raw author names still to review
0
References with external metadata lookup issues
1
These indicators apply to cited references displayed on this page, after technical duplicates have been merged. A reference without a DOI can still support author statistics when a title and author names are available.
Author names detected in the cited bibliography
132
From DOI or external metadata
132
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
1
59 / 132 (44.7%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 73 / 132 (55.3%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
17 / 132 (12.9%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 17 / 59 (28.8%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 15 / 115 (13.0%).
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