1/22 Full paper: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/709870/summary AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: SimpsonJournal: Theatre TopicsPublished: 2018Title: Tics in the Theatre: The Quiet Audience, the Relaxed Performance, and the Neurodivergent Spectator Theatre: The Neurodivergent Spectator Theatres have an etiquette for the audience. The idea of a quiet or invisible audience is both a recent concept, a historically atypicalContinue reading “Accessible Theatre”
Category Archives: Accessible Academia
Impact of autism disclosure on interview outcome
1/8 Full paper: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/aut.2020.0075 AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: Flower and colleaguesJournal: Autism in AdulthoodPublished: 2021Title: Barriers to Employment: Raters’ Perceptions of Male Autistic and Non-Autistic Candidates During a Simulated Job Interview and the Impact of Diagnostic Disclosure Autism Diagnosis in Interview Autistic adults are overwhelmingly under- or unemployed, despite the evidence that autisticContinue reading “Impact of autism disclosure on interview outcome”
Barriers to Health Care
1/18 Full paper: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/aut.2020.0074 AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: Strömberg and colleaguesJournal: Autism in AdulthoodPublished: 2021Title: Experiences of Sensory Overload and Communication Barriers by Autistic Adults in Health Care Settings Barriers to Health Care Autistic adults have a high rate of mental health conditions & increased mortality from suicide compared to nonautistic adults, asContinue reading “Barriers to Health Care”
Strengths in the Workplace
1/18 Full paper: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/aut.2021.0037 AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: Cope & RemingtonJournal: Autism in AdulthoodPublished: 2021Title: The Strengths and Abilities of Autistic People in the Workplace Strengths & Abilities of Autistic People in the Workplace Despite wanting to work, autistic people are often under- or unemployed. In the UK, 22% of autistic adults areContinue reading “Strengths in the Workplace”
“no such thing as the ‘voiceless'”
1/22 AccessibleAcademia Who: MorganJournal: PSU McNair Scholars Online JournalPublished: 2019Title: Connections Between Sensory Sensitivities in Autism; the Importance of Sensory Friendly Environments for Accessibility and Increased Quality of Life for the Neurodivergent Autistic Minority Full paper: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1212&context=mcnair “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”Continue reading ““no such thing as the ‘voiceless’””
Autistic Friendly Urban Design
1/32 Full paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/2/2/42 AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: ChanJournal: Urban SciencePublished: 2018Title: Neurodivergent Themed Neighbourhoods as A Strategy to Enhance the Liveability of Cities: The Blueprint of an Autism Village, Its Benefits to Neurotypical Environments Conceptualising an Autism Village At current, autistic people try & live their best lives in neurotypical environments, despiteContinue reading “Autistic Friendly Urban Design”
Towards Accessible Remote Working
1/37 AccessibleAcademia Who: Das & colleaguesJournal: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer InteractionPublished: 2021Title: Towards Accessible Remote Work: Understanding Work-from-Home Practices of Neurodivergent Professionals Full paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3449282 Working from Home This paper wanted to look into how neurodivergent people, including autistic people, engaged with remote working “getting any work done during a pandemic is byContinue reading “Towards Accessible Remote Working”
Ecosystem of Autistic Employment
1/22 AccessibleAcademia Who: Klag & colleaguesJournal: Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social ServicesPublished: 2021Title: Creating a Resilient Ecosystem for the Employment of Autistic Individuals: From Understanding to Action Full paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10443894211017397 Employment Authors:one autistic individual (SM)one social workerone family member of autistic individual Autistic people are often unemployed, underemployed, or employed in positionsContinue reading “Ecosystem of Autistic Employment”
Burnout
1/4 AccessibleAcademia Who: Raymaker & colleaguesJournal: Autism in AdulthoodPublished: 2020Title: “Having all of your internal resources exhausted beyond measure and being left with no clean-up crew”: Defining Autistic Burnout. Burnout Chronic ExhaustionLoss of SkillsReduced Tolerance to Stimuli Burnout:Autistic burnout is a syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic life stress and a mismatch of expectations andContinue reading “Burnout”
Experiences of Masking
1/19 Full paper: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/aut.2020.0083 AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: Miller and colleaguesJournal: Autism in AdulthoodPublished: 2021Title: ‘‘Masking Is Life’’: Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults Masking “Masking” is a term used by the autistic community to describe the conscious or unconscious suppression of aspects of the self & identity in order toContinue reading “Experiences of Masking”
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