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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

Autistic Self-Advocacy and the Neurodiversity Movement: Implications for Autism Early Intervention Research and Practice.

Kathy Leadbitter, Karen Leneh Buckle, Ceri Ellis, Martijn Dekker

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05499910 (Training in Neuro Strengths-Based Approach to Autism), which is not on this map. Cited by 118 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05499910 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Training in Neuro Strengths-Based Approach to Autism

TypeinterventionalSponsorBaio EnterprisesRan2022 to 2023Enrolled16ConditionsAutism Spectrum DisorderArmsNSBAA
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

118 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 357 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kathy LeadbitterDivision of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Karen Leneh BuckleDivision of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ceri EllisDivision of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Martijn DekkerThe Autscape Organisation, Coventry, United Kingdom.
University of Manchester · GBEuropean Council · BESeascape Consultants (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growth of autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement has brought about new ethical, theoretical and ideological debates within autism theory, research and practice. These debates have had genuine impact within some areas of autism research but their influence is less evident within early intervention research. In this paper, we argue that all autism intervention stakeholders need to understand and actively engage with the views of autistic people and with neurodiversity as a concept and movement. In so doing, intervention researchers and practitioners are required to move away from a normative agenda and pay diligence to environmental goodness-of-fit, autistic developmental trajectories, internal drivers and experiences, and autistic prioritized intervention targets. Autism intervention researchers must respond to these debates by reframing effectiveness, developing tools to measure autistic prioritized outcomes, and forming partnerships with autistic people. There is a pressing need for increased reflection and articulation around how intervention practices align with a neurodiversity framework and greater emphasis within intervention programmes on natural developmental processes, coping strategies, autonomy, and well-being.

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autismchildrenearly interventionneurodiversityself-advocacy

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PMID33912110
PMCPMC8075160
OpenAlexW3154438532

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