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”
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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”
Seeking an Autism Diagnosis
1/8 Understanding Autism Getting a diagnosis I think I might be autistic. What do I do? 2/8 That’s great! It can feel really good to discover that other people share a lot of similar experiences to you. It’s common to realise you might be autistic after a family member, particularly your offspring, is diagnosed. It’sContinue reading “Seeking an Autism Diagnosis”
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”
Autistic Adults & Physical Health
1/4 Full paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362361320953652 #AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without us Who: Weir and colleagues Journal: Autism Published: 2021 Title: Increased prevalence of non-communicable physical health conditions among autistic adults Autistic Adults & Physical Health Autistic people are more likely than non-autistic people to die young, especially females and those with intellectual disabilities. Autistic people areContinue reading “Autistic Adults & Physical Health”
Expertise
1/4 Full article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00438/full #AccessibleAcademia Nothing about us without us Who: Gillespie-Lynch and colleagues Where: Frontiers in Psychology Published: 2017 Title: Whose Expertise Is It? Evidence for Autistic Adults as Critical Autism Experts Autistic Adults as Critical Autism Experts This study wanted to see how knowledgeable autistic people are about autism, and the level ofContinue reading “Expertise”
Therapy for Anxiety
1/4 Full article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S2589537021003229 #AccessibleAcademiaNothing about us without usWho: Quadt & ColleaguesWhere: EClinicalMedicinePublished: 2021Title: Interoceptive training to target anxiety in autistic adults (ADIE): A single-center, superiority randomized controlled trial Combatting Anxiety in Autistic Adults 53% of autistic adults meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder, compared to 10-15% of the general population. However, autistic people don’tContinue reading “Therapy for Anxiety”
Scripting
1/4 Understanding Autism Scripting What is scripting? Scripting is a form of social camouflage.It’s something that some autistic people engage in to support themselves with social situations. 2/4 Scripting is something that is done when we aren’t socialising to prepare us for social situations. It helps us to know what we should say in responseContinue reading “Scripting”
Autistic Nottingham 