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 9 Oct 2024 11:27

Introducing registered reports "to promote open and reproducible research practices and counteract publication biases within autism research" ("a weak, distorted evidence base may not improve autistic people’s quality of life & could even lead to harm") journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... editorial

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Catherine Manning (2024). The introduction of Registered Reports in the Autism journal: The what, why and how. Autism, 28(12), 2949-2952. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Oct 2024 12:32

More ABA (planned 15-20 hrs/wk; actual 5.8-19.6) vs less ABA (planned 5-10 hrs/wk; actual 1.4-9.3) for young autistic children?--small RCT (big COIs) finds no group differences on reported outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... note: planned "weeks in treatment" was 24; actual was 2-24

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Cynthia Anderson, Samantha Hochheimer, Zachary Warren, Eric Butter, Susan L. Hyman, Hongyue Wang, Lisa Wallace, Lynne Levato, et al. (2024). Comparative effectiveness trial: Modular behavior approach for young autistic children compared to comprehensive behavioral intervention. Autism Research, 17(11), 2430-2446. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Oct 2024 10:56

"Listening to the voices of autistic people and their loved ones of each region allows us to learn how we can appropriately harmonize neurodiversity perspectives with non-Western social-cultural and linguistic contexts in informed and respectful ways"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... editorial

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Tomoya Hirota, Keun-Ah Cheon, Meng-Chuan Lai (2024). Neurodiversity paradigms and their development across cultures: Some reflections in East Asian contexts. Autism, 28(11), 2685-2689. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Oct 2024 11:08

Testing CBCL (Child Behavior Checklist) in autistics: "the eight-factor CBCL/6–18 model did not have an acceptable fit in a large sample of autistic youth... CBCL/6–18 may not be a valid measure of emotional and behavioral problems in autistic populations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Laura de la Roche, Brianne Derby, Molly Pascoe, Melissa Susko, Sabrina Lutchmeah, Jessica Jones, Stelios Georgiades, Rob Nicolson, et al. (2024). Brief report: A confirmatory factor analysis of the Child Behavior Checklist in a large sample of autistic youth. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 118, 102487. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Oct 2024 11:36

ABA (ESDM) vs ABA (early behavioral intervention) for very young autistics?--protocol "is responsive to the neurodiversity perspective"? bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... note: child outcomes assess typicality (e.g. VABS, BOSCC); & EDI (Emotion Dysregulation Inventory) to assess harms?

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Aubyn C. Stahmer, Sarah Dufek, Sally J. Rogers, Ana-Maria Iosif (2024). Study Protocol for a Cluster, Randomized, Controlled Community Effectiveness Trial of the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) Compared to Community Early Behavioral Intervention (EBI) in Community Programs serving Young Autistic Children: Partnering for Autism: Learning more to improve Services (PALMS). BMC Psychology, 12(1), 513. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Oct 2024 12:19

"When we are told to expect high levels of control over the environment we become better able to distinguish control from its absence, but also biased to hallucinate a sense of control over uncontrollable outcomes"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in typical adults, autism-relevant, free

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George Blackburne, Chris D. Frith, Daniel Yon (2025). Communicated priors tune the perception of control. Cognition, 254, 105969. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Oct 2024 12:06

Findings "provide direct evidence for the less narrowed autistic perceptual system to infrequent (non-native) faces"? "This reduced specialization is unique to autism"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... based on same-different judgments of morphed cropped face images

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Marissa Hartston, Tal Lulav‐Bash, Yael Goldstein‐Marcusohn, Galia Avidan, Bat‐Sheva Hadad (2024). Fast updating of stimulus history reveals weak internal representations of faces in autism. Autism Research, 17(11), 2232-2243. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 2 Oct 2024 11:33

Authors use their "AUTISMS-3D" (A3D) model to divide very young autistics into 2 (lifelong?) subtypes--"profound disability (Type I) versus difference (Type II)"? molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... based on MSEL (among the worst ways to assess autistic abilities) & VABS (ditto) scores

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2 Oct 2024 11:35

Note: see Fig 2 for the range of individual scores & their overlap across subtypes--e.g. for MSEL visual reception, you can have scores under 50 & be classified as a "difference" autistic, and you can have scores over 80 and be classified as a "profound disability" autistic

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Veronica Mandelli, Ines Severino, Lisa Eyler, Karen Pierce, Eric Courchesne, Michael V. Lombardo (2024). A 3D approach to understanding heterogeneity in early developing autisms. Molecular Autism, 15(1), 41-41. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 1 Oct 2024 12:59

"These findings reinforce previous reports suggesting that conversion practice is fundamentally unethical and is associated with mental health harms" "Policies banning conversion practices are imperative..." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant

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Nguyen K Tran, Elle Lett, Barbara Cassese, Carl G Streed, David J Kinitz, Shalonda Ingram, Karalin Sprague, Zubin Dastur, et al. (2024). Conversion practice recall and mental health symptoms in sexual and gender minority adults in the USA: a cross-sectional study. The Lancet Psychiatry, 11(11), 879-889. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 30 Sep 2024 10:46

"there have been no systematic investigations of the effects of research literacy on the quality of clinical services in behavior analysis"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... note: genuine research literacy (literacy in science, ethics, clinical trials, etc) should stop ABA-based autism services

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Nicole L. Bank, Einar T. Ingvarsson (2024). A Call to Investigate and Improve the Research Literacy of Professional Behavior Analysts. Perspectives on Behavior Science, 47(4), 763-782. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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