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Supporting Autistic People in Health Care, Education, and The Criminal Justice System: An Interview with CRAE’s Laura Crane

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Shannon Rosa from Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism and Corina Becker from Autism Women’s Network interviewed Laura Crane from CRAE, the UK-based Centre for Research in Autism and Education about her work in supporting best practices in health care and education for autistic people, and also demonstrating that Autistics, children specifically, can be reliable witnesses during criminal investigations. Laura Crane | Photo: CRAE [image: Smiling white woman with long brown hair.] Shannon Rosa: Why don’t you start by telling us a little bit about the work that you’re doing for CRAE, because it seems like you’re involved in so many things. Laura Crane: My research focuses on two main areas. The first is looking at how we can support autistic children and adults within the criminal and family justice systems. A lot of that work has come from police officers and barristers and other legal professionals assuming that autistic children and…

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IMFAR: Now With More Autistic Priorities! TPGA’s 2017 Conference Report

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Shannon Des Roches Rosa  Senior Editor, TPGA Welcome to IMFAR 2017! [image: three white autistic folks: Corina Becker, Steven Kapp, & Carol Greenburg, posing by the “Welcome to IMFAR 2017” sign.] We have been reporting from IMFAR, the annual International Meeting for Autism Research, since 2011. This year we provided general live coverage via Twitter, with select roundups including the Press Conference, and highlights from sessions such as Autism and Aging, Understanding Barriers to Autism Diagnoses for Children from Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups in the U.S., Mental Health Crises in Autistic Youth, and Autism and Sexuality. We also co-hosted the #AutIMFAR chat with autistic and autism research community members. While the research presented at IMFAR continues to be varied in scope, and is still too disproportionately skewed towards prenatal, infant, and early childhood findings, our takeaway is that the 2017 meeting in San Francisco had the biggest increase in neurodiversity-oriented content and attendees we’ve seen so far.…

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Autism and Biowearables: An interview with Matthew Goodwin at IMFAR 2017

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Carol Greenburg and Matthew Goodwin at the IMFAR 2017 Press Conference [image: White woman with short platinum hair and glasses posing with a taller white man with a shaved head and goatee.] Northeastern University researcher Matthew Goodwin gave an IMFAR 2017 keynote speech about his work on “Wearable Sensor-Based Physiological and Physical Activity Biomarkers for Use in Laboratory and Naturalistic Environments to Assess Arousal and Repetitive Motor Movements in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism’s Carol Greenburg and Shannon Rosa, and Autism Women’s Network’s Corina Becker, spoke to Goodwin after the IMFAR press conference, about the real-life applications of his work, and how they can benefit autistic people. Carol Greenburg: What constitutes a behavior, insofar as it’s something that needs to be mitigated? A behavior like flapping or other “stims” may mean something different to the person who’s doing the intervention, as opposed to the autistic person themselves.…

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IMFAR 2017: Mental Health Crises in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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IMFAR 2017: Mental Health Crises in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder Storify by Shannon Rosa Sat, May 13 2017 21:08:54 Edit IMFAR 2017: Mental Health Crises in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical experience suggests such crises occur frequently among individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Despite the scope and impact of this issue, there is no systematic research on the measurement or management of mental health crises in individuals with ASD. Content note: Discussion of mental health issues, including suicide and other self-harm. ThinkingAutismGuide@thinkingautism Now: Mental Health Crises in #autistic youth. #IMFAR2017 Sat, May 13 2017 17:31:17 ReplyRetweetFavorite First speaker: Session chair L. Kalb: Psychometric Analysis of the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Scale in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder AutismWomen’sNetwork@autism_women Psychometric Analysis of the Mental Health Crisis Assessment in [Autistic] Youth #IMFAR2017 Sat, May 13 2017 17:33:36 ReplyRetweetFavorite ThinkingAutismGuide@thinkingautism What = mental health crisis? Settled on APA def:…

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What Are Autistic Research Priorities? Full #AutIMFAR Discussion at IMFAR 2017

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Even though IMFAR is all about autism, researchers don’t always connect with #autistic concerns. Hence the #AutIMFAR Twitter Chat at IMFAR 2017, which was a conversation among autistic community members and autism research community members (with plenty of participants who were both). The onsite #AutIMFAR chat crew! Fab convo w/autistic and autism research folk.  [image: hotel conference room gathering of autistic & non-autistic researchers  and community members, of various genders & races, mostly white.] #AutIMFAR chat was a partnership with #autchat, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Women’s Network, NOS Magazine, and Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism. We provided pre-chat guidelines and details. [image above: The Twitter logos for five organizations: autchat: a rainbow background with a black infinity symbol and black text reading: “#autchat“;  The Autistic Self Advocacy Network: a spiraling rainbow heptagon on a white background; Autism Women’s Network: a pink lowercase “a” overlaid on a light-blue-and-brown illustrations  of dragonflies and flowers, above…

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#AutIMFAR Twitter Chat: Conversations Between Autism Researchers and Autistic Community Members

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A delighted announcement: TPGA is partnering with The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), NOS Magazine, Autism Women’s Network (AWN), and autchat to host #AutIMFAR: a Twitter-based conversation between autism researchers and autistic community members.  #AutIMFAR Partner Orgs: autchat, ASAN, AWN, NOS Magazine, and TPGA [image: The Twitter logos for five organizations: autchat: a rainbow background with a black infinity symbol and black text reading: “#autchat”; The Autistic Self Advocacy Network: a spiraling rainbow heptagon on a white background; Autism Women’s Network: a pink lowercase “a” overlaid on a light-blue-and-brown illustrations of dragonflies and flowers, above the lowercase black text “autism women’s network”; NOS Magazine: a black circle on a white background, with an illustration of an incandescent light bulb drawn in white and surround by a sunburst in dashed rainbow colors; and Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: All-caps black text on a white background reading “Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism,” with “Person’s” in white text on a black arrow.]…