Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 29 Oct 2024 11:27

Interviews with professional autistic actors (age 16-38) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Outside of casting searches specifically targeting autistic actors to play autistic characters, the participants tended to withhold disclosure to avoid being treated differently or infantilized"

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Michelle Dean, Anders Nordahl-Hansen (2025). The to be, or not to be, of acting autistic. Autism, 29(3), 802-814. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Oct 2024 09:54

ABA-based treatment of "elopement" ("generally defined as moving more than 3ft from a caregiver without permission...") for N=14 autistics aged 5-21? link.springer.com/article/10.1... including punishment procedures--"Response blocking and harness use" "Baskethold" "Visual screen time‑out"

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Rose E. Nevill, Michelle F. Crawford, Jennifer R. Zarcone, Elizabeth Maquera, Griffin W. Rooker, Jonathan D. Schmidt (2025). A Retrospective Consecutive Controlled Case Series Analysis of the Assessment and Treatment of Elopement in Children with Autism in an Inpatient Setting. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 18(4), 903-920. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Oct 2024 10:08

Interviews with BCBAs & RBTs about ABA (NDBIs) vs ABA (DTT) for autistic children? ("aspects of NDBI and DTT overlap") link.springer.com/article/10.1... NDBIs "are thought to have moderate social validity and to be aligned with neurodiversity affirming care when rated by autistic adults"?

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Katherine Pickard, Nailah Islam, Naomi Green, Emma Chatson, Jocelyn Kuhn, Rachel Yosick (2024). The Challenges Associated with Changing Practice: Barriers to Implementing Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions in ABA Settings. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17(4), 1074-1088. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Oct 2024 11:10

"Profound autism" has how many definitions?--& here's a new one: "children with profound intellectual disability and minimal spoken language who require constant assistance with daily living activities... a presentation recently defined as ‘profound autism’" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

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Giacomo Vivanti (2024). Autism Early Intervention – Progress, Steps Backward, and the Reconciliation of Conflicting Narratives. Current Psychiatry Reports, 26(12), 753-760. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Oct 2024 12:23

"Among 1,096,800 individuals, 8,577 were diagnosed with intellectual disability by age 10. Among these, 3,949 (46%) and 2,768 (32%) were also diagnosed with autism and ADHD, respectively" jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... & ID prevalence increased, from 0.64% in 2011 to 1% in 2021

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Maki Morinaga, Viktor H. Ahlqvist, Michael Lundberg, Anna-Clara Hollander, Dheeraj Rai, Cecilia Magnusson (2024). Changes in the prevalence of intellectual disability among 10-year-old children in Sweden during 2011 through 2021: a total population study. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 16(1), 58. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Oct 2024 12:53

Educators describe their experiences working with BCBAs, focus group study, autism-relevant link.springer.com/article/10.1... "The characterization of BCBAs as 'arrogant' who 'come off as the expert and everybody else doesn’t know anything'... was a recurring theme across all focus groups"

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Megan Squires, Elizabeth A. Cutrer-Párraga, Jared R. Morris, Erica Ellsworth Miller, Blake D. Hansen (2024). Navigating Collaboration: Factors Influencing Special Education Teachers’ Relationships with BCBAs in Diverse School Contexts. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17(4), 1033-1049. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Oct 2024 11:32

In papers published since 2014, reported echolalia prevalence in autism ranges from 22.9%-91% (from a total N of 11-209)?--rapid review, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... included studies "varied widely in terms of the way echolalia was understood, defined, operationalised, and measured"

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Rebecca Sutherland, Lucy Bryant, Julia Dray, Jacqueline Roberts (2024). Prevalence of Echolalia in Autism: A Rapid Review of Current Findings and a Journey Back to Historical Data. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 11(4), 171-183. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 Oct 2024 11:37

Mental health interventions for autistic adults--systematic review of RCTs finds 19 studies, of which 5 had quality of life as an outcome journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "risk of bias appears to be a major issue" "studies failed to report or discuss adverse outcomes or potential harms"

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Amanda Timmerman, Vasiliki Totsika, Valerie Lye, Laura Crane, Audrey Linden, Elizabeth Pellicano (2025). Quality-of-life measurement in randomised controlled trials of mental health interventions for autistic adults: A systematic review. Autism, 29(3), 579-595. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Oct 2024 10:36

Registered: how the mainstream secondary school environment influences "the emotional experiences and mental health of autistic pupils and those with ADHD" & "the educational engagement of autistic pupils and those with ADHD" www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... systematic review

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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 20 Oct 2024 10:53

"With increasing availability of large, multidimensional datasets, researchers bear additional responsibility for ethical measure development, data use, analysis, interpretation, and communication of findings" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... editorial, autism-relevant, free

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Sandra A. Brown, Hugh Garavan, Terry L. Jernigan, Susan F. Tapert, Rebekah S. Huber, Daniel Lopez, Traci Murray, Gayathri Dowling, et al. (2025). Responsible use of population neuroscience data: Towards standards of accountability and integrity. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 72, 101466. Elsevier BV.

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