Our study used video clips of autistic and non-autistic people recounting emotional events to test if participants from the general population could: track the intensity of the narrators’ emotions; name and feel the same emotion; match where the narrator felt the emotion and indicate how intensely they felt the emotion using a body map. Open access article - no login required.
This article describes and reflects on the first six meetings of a newly established Autistic community council, founded to steer a participatory, longitudinal qualitative study investigating the reproductive health of Autistic people with wombs. Open access article - no login required.
The overarching aim of this exploratory study was to learn about autonomy from the perspective of autistic adults with intellectual disability, including what autonomy meant and how participants wanted to be supported to be autonomous. Open access article - no login required.
Autistic children often have comorbid somatic problems. However, in adulthood, this has been much less studied. We investigated the associations between autistic symptoms and irritable bowel syndrome, food allergy, pain, and fatigue in adulthood and examined sex and life-course differences herein. Open access article - no login required.
There is an increasing focus on research exploring autistic communication and community. In this review, we systematically collate and analyse how autistic adults describe their experiences of other autistic people and the relationship this has with their Quality of Life (QoL). Open access article - no login required.
This study explores the experiences and identities of nonbinary autistic people, an under-researched population. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This international study examines the implementation characteristics of the BIs and compares them to standardised measures for assessing the severity of intellectual impairment and adaptive behaviours in disorders of intellectual development and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The clinical utility of the ICD-11 and the fidelity of its application in international clinical settings were also assessed. Open access article - no login required
This study aims to investigate the prevalence of problem behaviours, characterise the behavioural phenotype and use well-validated measures to explore variables that maintain the behaviours. Open access article - no login required.
This is the first study to interview autistic adults about their personal experiences of differentiating between obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms and repetitive behaviours related to autism. Open access article - no login required.
...The conditions co-occur frequently, they share some cognitive features, and they have a marked overlap in underlying genetic and environmental influences (1). Perhaps surprisingly, we know much less about the overlap in brain function, particularly when the brain is actively engaged in psychological processes. This knowledge gap is partly addressed by a meticulously conducted and conceptually elegant meta-analysis of brain function in ADHD and ASD... To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
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Implications for practice and research:
Implementing waiting-list interventions, offering regular updates on queue position and estimated wait times, and providing information about support services can alleviate the uncertainty of prolonged waits and mitigate dropouts among individuals with learning disabilities and comorbid mental conditions.
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The objective of this study was to explore the role that Autistic identity, sensory processing and camouflaging behaviours have on eating disorder symptomology in Autistic adults. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study asks how autistic people experience menopause and how they can better access services, support and information; autistic Community Research Associates played an important role in each stage of the research. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This paper presents two real-life examples of attempted coproduction with a group of men with learning disabilities in England. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This paper aims to detail the process of developing a risk stratification tool to identify those individuals who are higher risk of premature mortality. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The purpose of this study is to examine the continuing adherence to the stopping over-medication of people with intellectual disability and/or autism guidelines for a cohort of outpatients seen in the outpatients’ clinics in the two teams who participated in this study to review the trend of psychotropic prescribing with a prescription indication along with the utilisation of non-pharmacological interventions. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This preliminary study aims to examine the use of a co-designed immersive virtual reality intervention programme in improving access to health care for people with intellectual disability. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
We wanted to find out what support and information is available to girls and women with learning disabilities about periods (also called ‘menstruation’) over a lifetime. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.