Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Apr 2026 12:48

Autism researchers & service providers "often neglect to consider the potential for interventions to cause harm... and they communicate more confidence regarding the possibility of benefits for autistic people than is warranted given the evidence" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... editorial, free

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Kristen Bottema-Beutel (2026). When Ableism Supplants Evidence: Federal Autism Guidance in the United States. Autism, 30(7), 1657-1662. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Apr 2026 12:12

"COIs continue to be pervasive in ABA autism intervention research, and most remain undisclosed. Most alarmingly, the practice of falsely claiming not to hold COIs remains entrenched in this field of research and appears to have worsened over time" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... an update

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Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Jessica Hinson-Williams, Yueyang Shen, Ruoxi Guo, Samantha Brayton, Jacqueline Alicea, Shannon LaPoint (2026). A 5-Year Update of Conflicts of Interest in Autism Intervention Research in Applied Behavior Analysis Journals. Autism, 30(7), 1887-1894. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Apr 2026 11:59

Comparing how autistic vs non-autistic adults (age 40-90) approach & experience retirement, online survey, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autistics were "less likely to have made retirement plans, and among those who had plans, they were more likely to have been disrupted or changed"

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Zuzanna Kowalczyk, Ahna Huwaida Ahmad Fadzil, Isabel Ward, Francesca Happé, Gavin R Stewart (2026). ‘A New Pace of Life’: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Retirement Plans, Preparations and Experiences in Middle-Aged and Older Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults. Autism, 30(5), 1330-1343. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Apr 2026 11:28

"a starting point for the development of new scholarship about ND musicians by ND musicians"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "when referring to forms of neurodivergence, we are only discussing innate neurological differences" as opposed to "acquired neurodivergence" ("e.g. depression")?

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Anna Détári, Georgia Dawson, Lydia Ballam, Alex Chapman, James Redelinghys, Emily Baines, Pete Furniss, Andrew Hugill, et al. (2026). The Neurodivergent Musician: A Methodology Report on A Participatory Action Research Study. Neurodiversity, 4, 27546330261434045. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Apr 2026 11:30

Autistics (vs non-autistics) "show more negative interoceptive evaluation"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "autistic traits predicted all three interoception measures (evaluation, accuracy and attention)" but "presence or absence of an autism diagnosis only predicted interoceptive evaluation"

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Kiera Louise Adams, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird (2026). Associations Between Autism and Self-Reported Dimensions of Interoception. Autism, 30(6), 1465-1477. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Apr 2026 11:13

"the effects of an AI-based intervention (Noora) on emotionally responsive verbal communication in autistic adults" (N=3)?--in which autistic responses "focused on problem-solving" are judged wrong, and subject to "corrective feedback"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... ABA in 2026, COIs, free

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Lynn K. Koegel, Paul Wehman, Christopher M. Claude, Monica S. Lam, Tommy Bruzzese, Melanie Derry, Alissa Brooke, Whitney Ham, et al. (2026). Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Emotionally Responsive Verbal Communication Among Autistic Workers in a Work Internship Setting. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Apr 2026 11:06

Daily living skills in "non- or minimally-speaking" ("NMS") autistic adults? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "the nonverbal reasoning skills of NMS individuals vary widely... it seems reasonable that independence in daily living skills amongst NMS autistic adults would also vary widely"

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Ellen Wilkinson, Yuen Yvonne Yu, Vanessa Hus Bal, Elaine B. Clarke (2026). Examining the Utility of the W-ADL to Assess Daily Living Skills in Non- or Minimally Speaking Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Apr 2026 11:35

Authors "found more differences than we expected between autism and BPD. The differences we found were apparent despite including individuals with subclinical traits of the comparator diagnosis, and aligned with each diagnostic construct" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free

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Kirsten Barnicot, Elissa Thompson, Sally Turner, Will Mandy, Rose McCabe, Eloise Stark, Jennie Parker (2026). Overlapping And Differentiating Clinical Features of Autism and Borderline Personality Disorder in Women and People Assigned Female at Birth: A Cross-Sectional Study. Autism, 30(5), 1292-1304. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Apr 2026 11:47

"Reporting of RCT abstracts remains incomplete particularly for key items including trial design, random sequence generation, blinding, and funding source disclosure" "Targeted interventions for authors, editors and reviewers are needed..." link.springer.com/article/10.1... autism-relevant, free

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Corentin Chapron, Lina Ghosn, Carolina Riveros, Gabriel Baron, Isabelle Boutron (2026). Completeness of reporting in abstracts of randomized controlled trials and factors associated with complete reporting: a meta-research study. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 11(1), 11. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 2 Apr 2026 11:58

"research is urgently required to address the driving barriers and challenges faced by autistic people"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "challenges... often relate to societal barriers or negative experiences, rather than due to any proven differences in driving safety or performance"

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Tom Arthur, David Harris, Sophie Robinson, Mark Brosnan, Elizabeth Sheppard, Samuel Vine, Gavin Buckingham, Mark Wilson, et al. (2026). Driving Support Interventions for Autistic People: Systematic Review and Participatory Synthesis. Autism in Adulthood, 25739581261434228. SAGE Publications.

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