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 24 Jan 2025 11:48

ABA (DTT) and/or ABA (JASPER-EMT) with/without parent training, sequential trial for "minimally verbal" autistic children?--primary outcome for the "best" intervention sequence: mean increase of 7.68 "socially communicative utterances" in 16 weeks? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Connie Kasari, Stephanie Shire, Wendy Shih, Ann Kaiser, Catherine Lord, Lynne Levato, Tristram Smith, Daniel Almirall (2025). Adaptive Intervention for School-Age, Minimally Verbal Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Community: Primary Aim Results. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 64(6), 674-685. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Jan 2025 11:44

Autistics (53.8% formally diagnosed) rate 55 proposed adaptations to therapy?--"variability was found at an individual level with most adaptations rated from not helpful through to extremely helpful"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... online survey with no way to rate adaptations as harmful, free

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Jessica Paynter, Kristyn Sommer, Amanda Cook (2025). How can we make therapy better for autistic adults? Autistic adults’ ratings of helpfulness of adaptations to therapy. Autism, 29(6), 1540-1553. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 Jan 2025 10:45

The journal Autism Research "does not publish papers that report pilot or preliminary studies" "does not publish papers that are based solely on qualitative data" "rarely publishes papers where data are based solely on survey or online samples" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... editorial, free

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David G. Amaral, the Associate Editors (2025). What We Publish and What We Do Not. Autism Research, 18(1), 7-8. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Jan 2025 13:01

Language outcomes for young autistic multilinguals who acquire English "via non-interactive input" vs autistic & non-autistic multilinguals "who acquire languages naturalistically" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39829274/ "in English, the three groups were statistically indistinguishable" (free)

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Iris Hindi, Natalia Meir (2026). Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive. Journal of Child Language, 53(2), 343-364. Cambridge University Press (CUP).

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 Jan 2025 10:24

Registered: "Are elevated levels of common mental health and sleep difficulties associated with autism in mid and older adults?" "What factors predict/moderate/mediate this relationship?" etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... systematic review, where "mid and older adults" means age 40 & up

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(n.d.). PROSPERO. CRD/PROSPERO. Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 Jan 2025 11:08

Supported employment outcomes for autistics--"employment rate increased... income and number of hours worked also increased" but "no group-level changes in participants’ mental health, quality of life or general self-efficacy"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... uncontrolled study (why?), COIs

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Maria C Ashworth, Brett Heasman, Laura Crane, Anna Remington (2025). Tracking the long-term outcomes of a supported employment internship programme for autistic adults without a learning disability. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330241311472. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 Jan 2025 11:24

Unhelpful biased etc opinion piece promoting ECT ("well tolerated" "offers real hope") for autistics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39804212/ note: "No studies have yet addressed ECT side effects in autism..." "no randomized controlled trials addressing ECT use in autistic individuals have been completed"

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Lee Wachtel, James Luccarelli, John Michael Falligant, Joshua Ryan Smith (2025). Electroconvulsive therapy in autism spectrum disorders: an update to the literature. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 38(2), 79-86. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health).

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Post published on Bluesky on 17 Jan 2025 11:41

In autistic vs typical 6-30 yr-olds, no group difference in mean risk preference molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... but risk preference "decreased toward adolescence & increased afterward" in autistics--the opposite of typical people ("increased toward adolescence & decreased later")?

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Motofumi Sumiya, Kentaro Katahira, Hironori Akechi, Atsushi Senju (2025). The preference for surprise in reinforcement learning underlies the differences in developmental changes in risk preference between autistic and neurotypical youth. Molecular Autism, 16(1), 3-3. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 Jan 2025 10:56

The term profound autism "was proposed to distinguish individuals with high dependency needs from the more verbally and intellectually able"? & "underscores the fact that, for some adults, autism can have a profound negative impact on quality of life"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free

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Patricia Howlin (2025). Changing approaches to interventions for autistic adults. World Psychiatry, 24(1), 131-132. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 Jan 2025 11:45

Of N=23,632 autistics, N=5640 (23.9%) were diagnosed after age 6, and "findings support the existence of 2 opposite groups of individuals with delayed autism... diagnosis"? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39804634/ one (N=3612) "with lower support needs" & one (N=2028) "with higher support needs"?

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Dan Aizenberg, Ido Shalev, Florina Uzefovsky, Alal Eran (2025). Data-Driven Characterization of Individuals With Delayed Autism Diagnosis. JAMA Pediatrics, 179(3), 340. American Medical Association (AMA).

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