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ArticleBehavior analysis in practice2022

Missing from the Narrative: A Seven-Decade Scoping Review of the Inclusion of Black Autistic Women and Girls in Autism Research.

Temple S Lovelace, Mary P Comis, JoVonne M Tabb, Olajumoke E Oshokoya

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Article in Behavior analysis in practice, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Describing the communication of autistic people during experiences of distress: A scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026
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  4. Black Caregiver Perspectives During a Developmental Diagnostic Interview.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026
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  14. Unpacking the prevalence: A warning against overstating the recently narrowed gap for Black autistic youth.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024
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  18. Perspective: The role of diversity advisory boards in autism research.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Temple S LovelaceDepartment of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education, 412B Canevin Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1467-1038
Mary P ComisDepartment of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education, 412B Canevin Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 USA.
JoVonne M TabbDepartment of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education, 412B Canevin Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 USA.
Olajumoke E OshokoyaDepartment of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education, 412B Canevin Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 USA.
Counseling Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intersectional experiences of Black autistic women and girls (BAWG) are missing from medical and educational research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Understanding the intersectional experiences of BAWG is important due to the rising prevalence of autism in Black children and girls (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2020) and the concurrent lack of availability of culturally relevant autism-related interventions (Maenner et al., 2020; West et al., 2016). Intersectionality is the study of the overlapping discrimination produced by systems of oppression (Collins, 2019; Crenshaw, 1989, 1991) and allows the researcher to simultaneously address race and disability in special education (Artiles, 2013). In this scoping review, the authors used the PRISMA-ScR checklist (Tricco et al., 2018) and Arskey and O'Malley's (2005) framework to investigate the degree to which autism-related research (ARR) has included the intersectional experiences of BAWG. Utilizing narrative synthesis, strengths and gaps across the current body of literature are identified in order to set new directions for intersectional ARR. Overall, the authors found that across a 77-year period, three studies foregrounded BAWG and none addressed intersectionality as measured through criteria advanced by García and Ortiz (2013). These results reveal the scholarly neglect BAWG face in ARR, discourse, policy, and practice. A future agenda including research, practice, and policy priorities is identified and discussed.

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AutismBlackGenderGirlIntersectionalityRaceScoping reviewWoman

Identifiers

PMID36605161
PMCPMC9745006
OpenAlexW3177117256

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