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”
Tag Archives: AccessibleAcademia
“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”
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”
Online Autism Assessments
1/6 Full paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946721001343 AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: Gibbs and colleaguesJournal: Research in Autism Spectrum DisordersPublished: 2021Title: Autism assessment via telehealth during the Covid 19 pandemic: Experiences and perspectives of autistic adults, parents/carers and clinicians Telehealth & Autism Assessments Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of people now receive healthcare, including assessmentContinue reading “Online Autism Assessments”
Autistic Experiences of Breastfeeding
1/10 Full paper: https://journals.lww.com/mcnjournal/Abstract/9000/Breastfeeding_Experiences_of_Autistic_Women.99766.aspx AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without usWho: Wilson and colleaguesJournal: MCN in AdvancePublished: 2021Title: Breastfeeding Experiences of Autistic Women Breastfeeding Experiences of Autistic Women This study wanted to look into the experiences of autistic adults who breastfeed. 2/10 The Participants They recruited breastfeeding autistic adults through Facebook groups. All of the participantsContinue reading “Autistic Experiences of Breastfeeding”
Autistic Adults as Victims of Violence
1/8 Full paper: https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/…/unsworks…/UNSWORKS #AccessibleAcademiaNothing about us without usWho: Gibbs and colleaguesJournal: Research in Autism Spectrum DisordersPublished: 2021Title: Experiences of physical and sexual violence as reported by autistic adults without intellectual disability: Rate, gender patterns and clinical correlates Autistic Adults & Physical and Sexual Violence TW: mention of violence 2/8 Study background: Studies have found thatContinue reading “Autistic Adults as Victims of Violence”
Early Intervention
We all saw *that article*… But what does the research ACTUALLY say? Full research paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2784066 Link to article: Newsbreak: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2784066Telegraph (paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/20/two-thirds-autism-cases-could-prevented-baby-video-intervention/ Autism can be prevented by teaching parents how to interact with their babies, study finds By Sarah Knapton Telegraph 14 days ago Two thirds of autism cases could be prevented by treatingContinue reading “Early Intervention”
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