Saying goodbye to the in-laws and these views over the lowveld. I have started to love the dry winter landscape
How a "neurodiversity‐affirmative" anxiety intervention for autistic children was co-designed, free acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "it is also still to be demonstrated whether interventions developed in this way will prove empirically more acceptable & effective in clinical practice"?
Co-design of new interventions, including autistic interventions, is now strongly advocated; but there are very few reports to date of the actual process of such co-design in practice with the autist...
Fact check on that misleading recent “autism can be reversed” study: “The idea that autism disappears, and someone is no longer autistic, is incompatible with what we know.” www.reuters.com/fact-check/s...
A U.S. study does not show severe autism can be “reversed”, contrary to misleading headlines shared on social media making that claim and calling the results a “miracle”.
With a very nice shout-out to our @journalautism.bsky.social special issue on global autism research
I was interviewed for this piece on parachute research and the importance of equitable partnerships in autism research. Also featuring the most excellent Gauri Divan, Lauren Franz and Abebaw Fekadu. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/the...
Scientists who study autism in lower-income countries are working to end practices that exploit or ignore collaborators and communities on the ground.
All continents represented around the #INSAR2024 dinner table 😍 eating delicious indigenous Australian food
This is a whole grift www.propublica.org/article/coll...
Hello Melbourne! Looking forward to spending some time in you this week. And to the first @AutismINSAR meeting outside of North America and Europe! Fellow autism researchers, especially those from the Asia Pacific, hope to see you at #INSAR2024
We must combat bad science & fraud because dodgy 'peer-reviewed' work is being used to give credibility to positions in high-stakes areas with real consequences. The publishers who let in weak/fraudulent work with minimal scrutiny are complicit. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...
Researchers are calling for the retraction of misleading anti-abortion studies that could influence judges in critical cases