Commentary on “Identifying relations between child adaptive functioning, parent empowerment, and advocacy among families of young autistic children” (Burke, 2025)

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Barbaro, J. (2025). Commentary on “Identifying relations between child adaptive functioning, parent empowerment, and advocacy among families of young autistic children” (Burke, 2025). Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 12(2), 226-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2025.2576187

Publication date: 3 Jul 2025 Added to AutiHub: 7 Sep 2026 Type: Article Article language: English

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Publication authors
1
Publication authors identified as autistic
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Abstract

Parent advocacy is widely recognised as a pivotal mechanism for improving service access and family wellbeing among Autistic children and their caregivers (Marsack-Topolewski & Graves, 2020; Rios e...

Bibliography cited by this reference

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Cited bibliography overview

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: 12 Sep 2026 07:09.

Cited references
24
With a DOI
20
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
4
5 / 24 (20.8%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
1 / 24 (4.2%)
References with detected author names
23 / 24 (95.8%)
Without detected author names
1
Without a structured title
1
Without a stable identifier
4
References with raw author names still to review
1
References with external metadata lookup issues
0
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
73
From DOI or external metadata
73
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
1
38 / 73 (52.1%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 35 / 73 (47.9%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
9 / 73 (12.3%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 9 / 38 (23.7%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 9 / 69 (13.0%).
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