Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

This page lists public posts integrated from @autismcrisis.bsky.social on Bluesky and archived posts from Twitter/X in one chronological feed. It supports reading, filtering and structured review of Michelle Dawson’s public posts used in the autism science watch project.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Jun 2025 11:15

"providing children with unsolicited help may inadvertently undermine children's self-perceived ability, liking of the task, and willingness to embrace challenges--even if the help is provided in indirect ways, like offering a hint" srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... autism-relevant, free

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Jellie Sierksma, Eddie Brummelman (2025). “Here, Let Me Do It for You”: Psychological Consequences of Receiving Direct and Indirect Help in Childhood. Child Development, 96(5), 1660-1674. Oxford University Press (OUP).

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Jun 2025 11:58

"if the evidence... supports the prioritization of assent in ABA, it does not follow that there would be any such thing as 'assent-based ABA.' There would only be ABA done better (with assent prioritized), and ABA done worse"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... on ABA brands, autism-relevant, free

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Jessica Graber, Abraham Graber (2025). Applied Behavior Analysis at a Crossroads: Reform, Branding, and the Future of Behavior Analysis. Perspectives on Behavior Science, 48(3), 577-588. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Jun 2025 11:22

The new journal "Research in Neurodiversity" posts its first paper, on autism, music & empathy, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "experimental studies have shown that autistic children can detect and categorise emotions expressed in music as well as, or better than, neurotypical children"

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Pamela Heaton (2025). Autism, musicality, and empathy: Through the lens of first-person accounts. Research in Neurodiversity, 1, 100001. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Jun 2025 12:46

RCT finds parent program targeting (some) RRBs in autistic children "was not successful, relative to a generalist psychoeducation group, in producing significant global improvements" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... but that parent RRBs program & its main target switched names, post-recruitment?

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10 Jun 2025 12:49

Note: the RCT protocol, submitted post-recruitment trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... here the program is called Managing (not Understanding) Repetitive Behaviours, & its main target is called challenging (not impactful) RRB? and this switch is not acknowledged (am I missing something?)

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Victoria Grahame, Linda Dixon, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Deborah Garland, Magdalena Glod, Jane Goodwin, Zoe Grayson, Saoirse Heron, et al. (2021). A clinical and cost-effectiveness trial of a parent group intervention to manage challenging restricted and repetitive behaviours in young children with autism spectrum disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 22(1), 240. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Victoria Grahame, Ashleigh Kernohan, Ehsan Kharati, Ayesha Mathias, Chrissie Butcher, Linda Dixon, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Deborah Garland, et al. (2025). Understanding Repetitive Behaviours: A clinical and cost-effectiveness, multi-site randomised controlled trial of a group for parents and carers of young autistic children. Autism, 29(8), 1998-2015. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Jun 2025 10:30

Registered: "Which populations are most likely to experience delayed, missed, or misdiagnosed autism? What individual, systemic, or assessment-related factors contribute to these diagnostic disparities?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review, including quantitative & qualitative data

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Amanda Moses, Josephine Barbaro, Gemma Davy, Nerelie Freeman, Sandhya Menon (2025). What Factors Contribute to Missed or Delayed Autism Identification and Diagnosis: A Systematic Review. CRD/PROSPERO. Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychology, Counselling & Therapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Jun 2025 10:57

Introducing PECANS, "a comprehensive checklist designed to ensure that all relevant information is included in research reports within the broad fields of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology" link.springer.com/article/10.3... autism-relevant, free

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C. Costa, R. Pezzetta, E. Toffalini, M. Grassi, G Cona, C Miniussi, P. J. Bauer, S. Borgomaneri, et al. (2025). Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies - The PECANS statement for human studies. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7), 182. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Jun 2025 12:01

"a novel cascading developmental model of autism that centralizes the primacy of sensory function"? psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... review, reduces autistic perception to sensory HYPO (hyporeactivity) & HYPER (hyperreactivity), and SIRS ("sensory interests, repetitions, and seeking behaviors"), free

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7 Jun 2025 12:05

Research note: so I instantly spotted the very interesting typo ("We aim to avoid albeit language" in footnote 1)--can't help it, and against the tide I think this is autistic perception at work, not the popular reduction of autism to sensory HYPO/HYPER and SIRS

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Natalie Russo, Autism Sensory Research Consortium, Carissa J. Cascio, Grace T. Baranek, Tiffany G. Woynaroski, Zachary J. Williams, Shulamite A. Green, Roseann Schaaf (2026). A cascading effects model of early sensory development in autism.. Psychological Review, 133(2), 450-487. American Psychological Association (APA).

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Jun 2025 12:06

On autism in schizophrenia, past & present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "it is perhaps appropriate to take action and consider the possibility of returning the borrowed concept of autism to the psychopathology of schizophrenia, where it still holds clinical and research potential"?

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Mads Gram Henriksen, Kasper Møller Nielsen, Laurent Mottron, Julie Nordgaard (2025). Autism in schizophrenia and its original link to self-disorder: returning a borrowed concept. The Lancet Psychiatry, 12(12), 960-968. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Jun 2025 12:26

"the most important outcomes to assess, using patient-reported outcome measures, when evaluating services for autistic adults"--a consensus? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... of the final 15 most important outcomes, zero directly state the priority of assessing harms or adverse effects

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Christina Nicolaidis, Mirah Scharer, Dora M Raymaker, Joseph Vera, Todd Edwards, Ian Moura, Mary Baker-Ericzén, Joelle Maslak, et al. (2025). Consensus on high-priority outcomes to be used in the evaluation of services for autistic adults: Results from a “CBPR-Nested Delphi Process”. Autism, 29(8), 1959-1972. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Jun 2025 11:32

TiS (Thinking in Speech), "an intervention to reduce emotional dysregulation by developing inner speech in autistic children"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... N=22 pilot waitlist RCT, mixed results (see Fig 2, all outcomes are caregiver-reported), COIs, "we did not measure inner speech..."

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Barbara L. Baumann, Janice Nathan, Barry R. Nathan, Miriam Sheynblyum, Valire Carr Copeland, Carla A. Mazefsky, Shaun M. Eack (2025). Developing Inner Speech to Help Autistic Individuals Improve Their Self‐Regulation Ability: A Pilot Randomized‐Controlled Trial. Autism Research, 18(7), 1489-1496. Wiley.

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