Promoting Classroom Engagement of Autistic Students Using Focused Interests

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Bayoumi, S. C., Kim, G. Y., Dwyer, P., Srinivasan, H., & Smith, K. H. (2025). Promoting Classroom Engagement of Autistic Students Using Focused Interests. TEACHING Exceptional Children. https://doi.org/10.1177/00400599251346719

Publication date: 26 Jul 2025 Added to AutiHub: 5 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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5
Publication authors identified as autistic
2 / 5 (40.0%)
  1. Sarah C. Bayoumi
  2. Gospel Y. Kim
  3. Patrick Dwyer *
  4. Hari Srinivasan *
  5. Kelsey H. Smith

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Cited references
39
With a DOI
34
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
5
7 / 39 (17.9%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
3 / 39 (7.7%)
References with detected author names
36 / 39 (92.3%)
Without detected author names
3
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3
Without a stable identifier
4
References with raw author names still to review
3
References with external metadata lookup issues
0
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Author names detected in the cited bibliography
128
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128
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
3
66 / 128 (51.6%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 62 / 128 (48.4%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
11 / 128 (8.6%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 11 / 66 (16.7%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 9 / 121 (7.4%).
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