Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Jul 2026 12:16

Now there are toddler versions of the Empathy Quotient (EQ-T) & Systemising Quotient (SQ-T)?--"a reduced drive to empathise may be more strongly linked to autistic traits than an increased drive to systemise, particularly in toddlerhood"?? (see Fig 2) link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

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Yumnah T. Khan, Alex Tsompanidis, Luning Sun, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen (2026). The Empathy Quotient and Systemising Quotient for Toddlers: Development and Validation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Jul 2026 11:50

In the UK GP Patient Survey, from 2018-25, proportion of self-reported autism in adults aged 25 & over increased from 0.6% to 2.0%? vs from 3.4% to 8.9% in 16-24 year-olds? link.springer.com/article/10.1... note: the survey does not ask "whether the participant has received a professional diagnosis"

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Samuel J. Tromans, Zoe L. Morgan, Benjamin Brewer, Rachel Williams, Traolach S. Brugha, Sally McManus (2026). Trends in Self-Reported Autism Among Adults in England: Analysis of a Repeated Cross-Sectional Patient Survey Series of 5,999,433 Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Jul 2026 12:15

In autism, "current findings indicate a potential need to refine the
current RRB structure put forward by the DSM-5 & suggest that a general RRB domain encompassing sensory features may not be empirically valid"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... based on caregiver-report for autistics aged 3-18

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Emily Spackman, Lacey Chetcuti, Susan R. Leekam, Andrew Whitehouse, Robert F. Krueger, Darren Hedley, Thomas W. Frazier, Antonio Y. Hardan, et al. (2026). Are Sensory Features a Subdomain of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors? Evaluating Empirical Support for the DSM-5 Autism Criteria. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 Jul 2026 11:33

BACB-approved "ethics continuing education events" at recent ABAI conventions? link.springer.com/article/10.1... 15 events were about using skin shock on autistics & others?--not mentioned (nothing in this paper about presenters or COIs), but most (all?) would have been the JRC promoting skin shock

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Hypatia A. Bolívar, Jonathan K. Fernand, Elham Khorasani Buxton (2026). Ethics Continuing Education Events at Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Conventions (2016-2024): A Topic Modeling Analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Jul 2026 12:09

"the kinds of embodied, relational, and epistemologically plural knowledge that autism research needs"?--editorial, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... yet more ("epistomologically plural") denigration of many (most?) autistic contributions as inauthentic, superficial, non-genuine, tokenistic

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Abbie Campbell-Mapplebeck, Anthony Schrag, Rachael Davis (2026). Staying With the Trouble: An Argument for Transdisciplinary Autism Research. Autism, 30(8), 1919-1923. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 Jul 2026 10:44

Registered: "Implementation & sustainability of social care interventions for autistic adults" where social care includes "personal care, housing... employment... social inclusion... advocacy... safeguarding... crisis prevention" etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... mixed methods systematic review

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Pauline Campbell, Julie Cowie, Cathryn Broderick, Janet Finlayson, Sheila Cameron, Alice MacKenzie, Ewelina Rydzewska, NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland Initiative NESSIE (2026). Implementation and sustainability of social care interventions for autistic adults: a mixed-methods systematic review. CRD/PROSPERO. Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 Jul 2026 11:23

"Early and later onset autism may represent different subtypes"?--based on age of diagnosis (not "onset") & excluding "early" diagnosed autistics who lost their diagnosis "later" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... see Fig 1 for overlap across "early-autism" & "later-autism" & "no-autism" groups

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Tessel Bazelmans, Tony Charman, Mark H. Johnson, Emily J. H. Jones, the BASIS Team (2026). Distinct Temporal Stages of Infant Brain Processing Associate With Early Versus Later Autism Diagnosis. Developmental Science, 29(5), e70244. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 Jul 2026 12:14

The unethical promotion rapid prompting & its variants has harmed autistics a lot--& so has the unethical practice (as in this review) of denying any communication to any autistic who in the past has ever been subject to rapid prompting etc link.springer.com/article/10.1... ABA-based standards, free

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Ralf W. Schlosser, Shane Howard, Lucy Bryant, Katharine Beals, James Todd, Russell Lang, Sharon Skinner, Bronwyn Hemsley (2026). Systematic Review of Authorship in Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, and Variants: Outcomes, Significance and Clinical Implications. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Jul 2026 11:34

"Behavioural overlap between autism and vision impairment is not just a diagnostic challenge; it reflects a more fundamental tension of how autism is currently defined" "can we define autism without over-relying on behaviours mediated by vision?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... editorial, free

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Maria Grammatikou, Aikaterini Tavoulari, Catherine Manning (2026). Disentangling Autism and Vision Impairment: Challenges in Differential Diagnosis. Autism, 13623613261464680. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Jul 2026 10:50

Registered: aiming to evaluate "the extent to which existing classroom behavior management systems may unintentionally marginalise or exclude autistic pupils" & "whether the evidence indicates a need for more neuro‑responsive approaches..." etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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Laura Chambers, Lauren Powell, Jilly Gibson-Miller (2026). What are teachers', pupils' and parents/carers' perspectives on classroom-based behaviour management systems that aim to facilitate autistic pupils' inclusion and participation in compulsory education?. CRD/PROSPERO. Affiliation: School of Education, University of Sheffield..

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