Michelle Dawson
@autismcrisis
off-message autistic researcher
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https://autismcrisis.blogspot.com/ 10-06-2009 08:11:55
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Higher rate of diagnosed precocious puberty in autism--0.7% in autistic children, vs 0.1% in matched non-autistics? data from Taiwan sciencedirect.com/science/articl… note: 14.2% (N=1582/11,104) of all autistics were female, vs 66% (N=55/83) of autistics diagnosed with precocious puberty
Autism journal editorial board members judge the questions used in autism knowledge tests, free link.springer.com/article/10.100… '34% of the questions... were flagged as 'potentially problematic' for accuracy' 'There was considerable disagreement... about the ambiguity of the questions'
Autistics assigned female at birth were diagnosed on average 0.67, 1.26 & 5.78 years later than autistics assigned male at birth, based on research, clinic & community samples, respectively journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… across all participants, age at diagnosis ranged from 1.3-29 years
'no one acts entirely independently, and thus, independence and interdependence co-occur within all people (autistic or not). Furthermore, individuals demonstrate varying degrees of independence & interdependence across domains of life...' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… editorial, free
'multisensory integration, temporal processing acuity, and rapid temporal recalibration all seem to be intact among autistic adults' 'findings challenge existing theories and provide an optimistic perspective on autistic development' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej… McGurk paradigm study
Person- vs identity-first language in the abstracts of 11 autism journals journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… across journals, highest proportion of abstracts with identity-first language only was 93.75%--in JACS (Journal of Autism & Childhood Schizophrenia), which was published from 1971–78
Behavior analysts on the 'sentiment' of tweets about ABA link.springer.com/article/10.100… 'most tweets have a positive or neutral sentiment'?--but 'negative tweets received more engagement'? 'behavior analysts may face the potential of losing control of the narrative regarding the field'?
82.5% of autistics subject to ABA-based interventions were excluded from any social validity assessment of those interventions?--as were 86.4% of individuals 'described as having multiple disabilities' link.springer.com/article/10.100… from a review of studies in 8 ABA journals (2010-20)
Rational inattention, 'the first comprehensive theory of information seeking in neurodivergent children'?--'neurodivergent children characteristically disengage (or engage unconventionally) with information sources about which they are uncertain'? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de… free
Autistic and/or ADHD (vs non-autistic non-ADHD) adults 'had more experiences of both hyper-focus and inattention' & 'had both more positive and more negative experiences of hyper-focus'--'negative impacts were especially prominent'? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27… online survey, free
Scoping review of ABA-based DTT practices, from 2000-21, finds 134 studies subjecting autistics & others (77% of N=652 participants reported to be autistic) to '1860 individual applications' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi… 45% of DTT 'applications' were reported to use food reinforcers
Behavior analysts promoting 'neurodiversity affirming' ABA?--which means 'critical of ableist practices & not the principles of behavior. It is essential to discriminate between criticisms as an issue of ethics rather than an issue of science'? link.springer.com/article/10.100… COIs, free