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 17 Dec 2024 13:48

4 classes of RCTs? Well Resourced & Thorough; Dated; Fundamental Deficiencies; Research Waste?--best differentiating the classes: "trial registration status, institution/ethics board approval, COIs reported, & reporting of adverse events"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant, free

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Jill A. Hayden, Rachel Ogilvie, Shazia Kashif, Jack Wilkinson (2025). Identification of latent classes of randomized controlled trials based on integrity and reporting characteristics. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 179, 111644. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 Dec 2024 10:26

Registered: "Have neurodivergent individuals experienced psychological interventions as being neurodiversity affirmative?"--meta-ethnography www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... aiming for "cohesive guidelines and principles for providing neurodiversity-affirming psychological intervention"?

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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 15 Dec 2024 10:59

"‘Demand avoidance’ is a feature of autism"? "up to 20% of autistic children present with extreme (or what is sometimes termed ‘pathological’ or ‘persistent and marked’) demand avoidance (E/PDA) behaviors"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... interviews with parents about "E/PDA behaviors," free

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Saher Nawaz, Susan Speer (2025). What are the experiences and support needs of families of autistic children with Extreme (or ‘Pathological’) Demand Avoidance (E/PDA) behaviours?. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 119, 102515. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Dec 2024 11:47

meanwhile, have autism researchers generated any papers at all about autistic grandparents?--I don't think so, happy to be corrected

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Dec 2024 11:35

What does "choice" mean in ABA papers, from 2000-2022 ("the latest practices involving choice")?--among "putative reinforcers as choice options" (24 experiments), "the most widely used choice option was edibles" (20 experiments, 83%)"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant, free

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Ji Young Kim, Cody Morris, Megan E. Ellsworth, Xiaoyuan Liu, Nicole F. Seacord (2025). Choice versus no choice: Practical considerations for increasing choices. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58(1), 100-117. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Dec 2024 11:42

Reiterating "that RMET scores are unsubstantiated, and thus uninterpretable" & again recommending "that researchers stop using the RMET as a measure of social cognitive ability and re-evaluate existing research findings based on RMET scores" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant

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Wendy C. Higgins, David M. Kaplan, Eliane Deschrijver, Robert M. Ross (2025). Why most research based on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test is unsubstantiated and uninterpretable: A response to Murphy and Hall (2024). Clinical Psychology Review, 115, 102530. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Dec 2024 12:09

Decades too late, a bit more on ABA-based harms in the form of "resurgence" during functional communication training, including "several occasions in which challenging behavior resurged to twice or four times the levels seen in baseline" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant, free

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Arielle R. Marshall, Daniel R. Mitteer, Brian D. Greer, Catherine B. Kishel (2025). On the prevalence and magnitude of resurgence during delay‐and‐denial tolerance teaching. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58(1), 151-163. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Dec 2024 10:30

New NIH-funded project: "the role of stimulus and reinforcer type (social versus nonsocial) in value learning" & whether "autism-specific alterations in value learning are present at the earliest time when autism can be reliably diagnosed..."? reporter.nih.gov/project-deta... $831,412 for year 1?

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KATARZYNA CHAWARSKA (2025). Investigation into the role of value learning in core features of autism in toddlers. NIH RePORTER. YALE UNIVERSITY.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Dec 2024 11:59

Views about supports for young autistics--surveys find "an increasing commitment to neurodiversity-affirming approaches echoed by non-autistic individuals"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... what about commitment to fair tests (benefits vs harms) of supports promoted as neurodiversity-affirming?

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Rhylee Sulek, Chris Edwards, Ruth Monk, Lee Patrick, Sarah Pillar, Andrew JO Whitehouse, Hannah Waddington (2025). ‘It depends entirely on the nature of those supports’: Community perceptions of the appropriateness of early support services for autistic children. Autism, 29(5), 1275-1284. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Dec 2024 10:33

Registered: "neuroimaging techniques that can be used with minimally verbal and profoundly autistic individuals"?--systematic review www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... where "profound autism" means IQ<50 and/or "no-to-minimal language" and/or "require 24-hour supervision and assistance..."?

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

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