Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 Aug 2026 11:05

"The key questions, however, are not just about diagnostic prevalence but also the burden of mental ill health across the spectrum, functioning across different contexts and the risks and benefits of intervention"? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... editorial perspective, autism-relevant

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Anita Thapar, Daniel S. Pine (2026). Diagnosis in child and adolescent psychopathology: A useful tool when applied with care or a misunderstood, politicised concept?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, jcpp.70213. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 Aug 2026 11:25

"autism-specific early intervention (EI) has positive impacts"? but "we still do not have a high degree of certainty about the effectiveness of autism-specific EI"?--more like no certainty re balance of benefits vs harms, long-term outcomes, etc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... commentary, COIs

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Ashley de Marchena, Andrea Trubanova Wieckowski, Brian Freedman, Lindsay Shea, Jill Locke, Peter F. Cronholm, Stephen S. Leff, Giacomo Vivanti, et al. (2026). From Waiting to Action: Why the Autism Field Must Embrace Efficient Service Delivery Models for Diagnostic Assessment. Autism, 13623613261474938. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Aug 2026 11:51

"Despite meaningful advances in reproducibility of biological factors associated with autism, clinically actionable biomarkers remain elusive"--review, COIs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... note: "a biomarker is not a measure of how an individual feels, functions, or survives"

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Jason W. Griffin, Brianna Cairney, William E. Carson, Lacey Chetcuti, Adrien E.E. Dubois, Guillaume Dumas, Sebastien Jacquemont, Shafali Jeste, et al. (2026). Recent progress of large-scale biomarker consortia and paths forward in biomarker development for autism. Biological Psychiatry. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Aug 2026 11:55

Behavior analysts use food reinforcers (dark chocolate, chocolate sandwich cookies, strawberry toaster pastries) to train an autistic adult, who has received "more than 10 years of ABA therapy," to stuff envelopes, fold washcloths, etc onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2026, COIs

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Lindsey Cicalese, Katherine A. Cucinotta, Daniel R. Mitteer, Robert H. LaRue (2026). Increasing Task Completion in Autistic Adults While Concurrently Reinforcing Functional Communication and Challenging Behavior. Behavioral Interventions, 41(4), e70132. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Aug 2026 11:18

"While some theories suggest differences in predictive processing underlie autism..., the current findings challenge the robustness of empirical evidence for differences in volatility estimates and learning rate updates between autistic and non-autistic adults" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

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Irene Sophia Plank, Alexandra Pior, Anna Yurova, Julia Nowak, Zhuanghua Shi, Christine M. Falter-Wagner (2026). Predicting emotional valence in autism: a preregistered study in the Bayesian Brain framework. Molecular Autism, 17(1), 32. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Aug 2026 11:13

"while the Clinical Global Impressions scale is widely used to evaluate change in autistic individuals following psychosocial interventions, inconsistent application limits its reliability, validity, and interpretability" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... systematic review, free

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Magdalena Glod, Victoria Grahame, Jacqui Rodgers (2026). The Use of the Clinical Global Impressions Scale in Psychosocial Interventions for Autism Characteristics: A Systematic Review. Autism, 13623613261472939. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Aug 2026 10:37

Registered: "the first comprehensive systematic review of the literature on early developmental differences in infants with family history of ADHD and/or autism compared to infants without family history" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... note: included age range is 0-36 months

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Elizabeth Shephard, Thayna Mendes (2026). A systematic review and meta-analysis: developmental differences associated with family history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism in the first three years of life. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Sao Paulo.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Aug 2026 11:18

Definitions of developmental regression in children "varied in the reporting of fundamental features such as the duration of loss, the child's age when regression was first reported and the types of skills lost" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... scoping review, autism-relevant, free

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Kirsten Furley, Jenny Fairthorne, Vishnu Priya Mohanakumar Sindhu, Katrina Williams, Amanda Brignell (2026). Defining and Measuring Developmental Regression During Childhood: A Scoping Review. Autism Research, e70325. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Aug 2026 12:16

"Some autistic children with relatively high verbal abilities may produce limited spontaneous speech" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "neither an autistic child's speaking status nor the amount of generative language this child spontaneously produces necessarily matches their verbal skills"

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Federica Beccaria, Liesl Leenen, Marie Kolenberg, Klaartje Vertongen, Ellen Demurie, Marielle Weyland, Petra Warreyn, Herbert Roeyers, et al. (2026). Defining Language Profiles in Young Autistic Children Across Verbal, Speaking, and Generative Dimensions. Autism Research, e70324. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Aug 2026 11:47

ESDM vs non-ESDM early autism interventions across 9 studies (only 1 is an RCT), where autistics received 3-27 months of intervention? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "little evidence of quantitative differences between intervention types" "many null effects of cumulative intervention intensity"

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6 Aug 2026 12:07

Note: no, the authors do not address harms to autistics from early interventions, or even mention this possibility, in any way, in 2026

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Veronica Mandelli, Elena Maria Busuoli, Michel Godel, Nada Kojovic, Yana Sinai-Gavrilov, Tali Gev, Annarita Contaldo, Eric Courchesne, et al. (2026). Predicting early intervention outcomes in autism via individual participant data mega-analysis. Molecular Autism, 17(1), 33. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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