Nicholas Chown

• PhD, MA Autism, PG Cert AS, FIRM, MSocInd
• Researcher at London South Bank University

Applied behaviour analysis and critical autism studies aregenerally assumed to find no common ground on the ques -tion of autism support strategies. With the core convictionthat no autism support or intervention that seeks to nor -malise autistic people can ever be considered neurodiversity-affirming, two critical autism scholars and two BCBAbehavi...

Background: Diagnosis of autism falls under the remit of psychiatry. Recognition that psychiatrists could be autistic is recent. Psychiatrists are the second largest specialty group in Autistic Doctors International, a peer support group for autistic doctors. Aims: To explore the experiences of autistic psychiatrists in relation to recognising th...

Autistic people experience more co-occurring health conditions and, on average, die younger than non-autistic people. Despite growing awareness of health inequities, autistic people still report barriers to accessing healthcare. We aimed to explore the experiences of autistic people accessing healthcare, shining a light on the complex interplay of...

For many years in the field of autism, the actions, skills and responses of autistic people were often described as abnormal, maladjusted or deficient. The goal of many interventions was, and still is, to teach autistic children and adults to behave like their non-autistic peers as evidenced in approaches designed to teach (neurotypical) social ski...

Qualitiative phase of Barriers to Healthcare project. Quant paper available at https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/12/2/e056904.full.pdf

The experiences of autistic psychiatrists

The Scottish National Autism Implementation Team's neurodiversity terms are a valiant, but flawed, attempt to reconcile different worldviews on neurodiversity. The aim of harmonising different perspectives is laudable; however, we disagree with the use of ‘societal norms’ in the authors’ framework of terms and challenge some of their proposed defin...

Despite the enormous amounts of money spent on autism research, there has been little focus to date on what members of the autistic community believe should be prioritised by autism researchers. Our systematic review of the literature identified three published studies that had developed wide-ranging autism research priority sets. We undertook an i...

Various physical conditions appear with greater frequency in autistic individuals in comparison to non-autistic people and can lead to higher morbidity, lower quality of life, and lower life expectancy. A voluntary primary care annual health check (AHC) scheme is in place in the UK for patients with intellectual disabilities (ID), some of whom will...

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 Commission’s report and some wider issues related to autism research in general as a committee of aut...

This chapter is primarily focused on first response, and specifically first response by police officers, involving autistic children and adults. Included in this chapter are a review and analysis of the academic literature on first responder training in autism; information and advice for first responders interacting with an autistic person; a discu...

It is both epistemologically, as well as ethically, problematic if the autistic voice is not heard in relation to social scientific research seeking to further develop knowledge of autism. Ever since autism first emerged, it has remained medicalised and almost exclusively the preserve of non-autistic researchers. More recently autistic individuals...

Newman, Cashin and Waters wrote an article in Research in Nursing and Health (RINAH) entitled 'Modified Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach Toward Individuals Who Have Autism'. My initial letter to the editor of RINAH drawing attention to perceived errors in the article was published. The reply to my letter from the authors of the article was als...

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The doctoral viva voce (‘viva’) has been variously described in the literature as mysterious, unpredictable and potentially frightening for students. Here we present a set of reasonable adjustments designed to remove social barriers from existing viva process for the benefit of autistic doctoral viva candidates. Our objective is to ensure that auti...

This response to Milton’s recent article on the ontological status of autism and double empathy also explores, through the lens of ‘double empathy’ and ‘theory of mind’, the issues of relationality and interaction that researchers in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and psychology hardly acknowledge. I go on to consider Wittgenstein’s criteriol...

The autism ‘triad of impairments’ will often disadvantage those with autism when they come into contact with the Criminal Justice System (CJS) when compared with people without autism. Existing research suggests that people with developmental disabilities such as autism are between 4 and 10 times more likely to become victims of crime than those wi...