DBT vs TAU (treatment as usual) for suicidal ideation/attempts in autistic adults, N=123 RCT, free cambridge.org/core/journals/… '14 severe adverse events... 9 (15.0%) in TAU, including both suicides & 5 in DBT (7.9%)'--but none 'considered to be caused by participation in the study'?

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

'an exclusive scientific focus on the detriments of growing up in poverty in the absence of a consideration of the strengths of these individuals ultimately harms the very communities it aims to help, perpetuating inequity' sciencedirect.com/science/articl… autism-relevant, free

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'?

Earlier onset of suicidal thoughts & behaviors in young autistics, vs 'what has been observed in typically developing youths' jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… in autistics aged 8 or younger, 'unexpectedly high frequency of suicidal thoughts & behaviors... is particularly disturbing...'

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)

Registered: 'How is autistic burnout conceptualised in the literature?' & 'What theories of autistic burnout have been proposed?' crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/displ… systematic review--'All English language peer- and editor-reviewed literature on autistic burnout will be included'

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

On the extremes of imagery--aphantasia (reduced or absent imagery) vs hyperphantasia ('superabundance of imagery'), free cell.com/trends/cogniti… 'How is extreme imagery related to autism? Aphantasia is associated with autism, but both imagery extremes may co-occur with autism'

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

Alberta court rejects injunction against medically assisted death for a young autistic woman canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/doc… 'The harm to MV if an injunction is granted goes to the core of her being. An injunction would deny MV the right to choose between living or dying with dignity'?

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