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Autistic perspectives on the future of clinical autism research
The Lancet Commission on the Future of Care and Clinical Research in Autism recently published their recommendations for what should be done in the next 5 years to address the current needs of autistic individuals and families. Although the Commission includes many prominent clinicians and researchers from around the world, as well as some autistic advocates and parents of autistic people, there have been widespread expressions of dissatisfaction among autistic people and communities regarding these recommendations.
We, the Global Autistic Task Force on Autism Research are a group of autistic professionals and representatives of organizations run by and for autistic people. We are autistic clinicians, therapists, educators and researchers, parents, and family members of autistic people of all ages and with all types of support needs, as well as individuals with high support needs. Among us are also autistic people of color, autistic people from the Global South and Asia, autistic women, and autistic people belonging to gender minorities.
Despite aiming at bringing together different stakeholders, representation within the Lancet Commission was limited in these respects. We hope to bring more voices to the discourse. We previously wrote an open letter to the Commission to draw attention to our main concerns. In this editorial, we offer a more detailed discussion of the Commission's report, as well as our own recommendations for future directions in autism research and care
NetPaint - Androidapplikation för att mÄla tillsammans
Det hÀr projektet har gÄtt ut pÄ att ta fram en applikation för Android dÀr en eller
era spelare kan mÄla ihop. Projektets huvudsakliga utmaningar
har varit att skapa en interaktiv rityta och trÄdlös kommunikation mellan Androidtelefoner.
Utmaningen med skapandet av ritytan lÄg i att modellera och abstrahera elementen kopplade till ritrörelser samt metoderna för Ätkomst till dessa, sÄ att verktygen kopplade till utmÄlning kunde integreras. Det alÄg Àven ritytan
att skapa och hantera nÀtverksmeddelanden under en flerspelar-session, för
att upprÀtthÄlla en identisk bild över alla Androidtelefoner som m alar tillsammans.
SvÄrigheterna med kommunikationen mellan Androidtelefonerna var att fÄ trÄdlös kommunikation via antingen TCP/IP- eller Bluetoothprotokollet och att fÄ de meddelanden som skickas mellan telefonerna att synkroniseras utan nÄgra fel. Ett annat moment innefattade att designa ett
anvÀndargrÀnssnitt med ett tema kopplat till applikationens syfte och som
var sÄ anvÀndarvÀnligt som möjligt.
Gruppen har arbetat i tvÄ mindre delgrupper för att kunna nÄ resultat snabbare, detta eftersom projektet har haft tre omfattande arbetsomrÄden: anvÀndargrÀnsnitt, rityta samt nÀtverkskommunikation.
Resultatet Àr en applikation som nÀr alla de huvudsakliga mÄl som var
uppsatta av gruppen dÄ projektet började
Autistic perspectives on the future of clinical autism research
There have been widespread expressions of dissatisfaction among autistic people and communities regarding the recommendations of the Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism.1 The authors of this article discussed the Commissionâs report and some wider issues related to autism research in general as a committee of autistic people, the Global Autistic Task Force on Autism Research, comprising autistic professionals and representatives of organisations run by and for autistic people, focusing on advocacy, service provision, education and participatory research. The Commission has been addressed in an open letter that drew attention to some of the points also discussed in this article