A5001966297- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
Children's National
2018-2024
Center for Autism and Related Disorders
2018-2021
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2020-2021
Community Health Alliance
2019-2021
Objective: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is significantly over-represented among transgender adolescents. Independently, ASD and gender diversity are associated with increased mental health risks. Yet, in autistic-transgender adolescents poorly understood. This study investigates the largest matched sample to date of autistic-transgender, non-autistic (allistic) transgender, autistic-cisgender diagnosed using gold-standard diagnostic procedures. In accordance advancing understanding...
Objective: A series of studies report elevated rates autism and autistic characteristics among gender-diverse youth seeking gender services. Although with the co-occurrence present complex care needs, existing have focused on rates. Further, clinical commentaries emphasized provider-centered interpretations needs rather than key stakeholder-driven approaches. This study aimed to employ community-based participatory research methodologies develop a group program.Method: Autistic/neurodiverse...
Gender identity is a core component of human experience, critical to account for in broad health, development, psychosocial research, and clinical practice. Yet, the psychometric characterization gender has been impeded due challenges modeling myriad self-descriptors, statistical power limitations related multigroup analyses, equity-related concerns regarding accessibility complex terminology. Therefore, this initiative employed an iterative multi-community-driven process develop Self-Report...
Research addressing the co-occurrence of autism (and/or neurodiversity) and gender-diversity (A/ND-GD) has been conducted largely without perspectives voices A/ND-GD community. Including community advocates as research partners may be a critical next step for advancing initiatives on given apparent complexity alterity experience.Consistent with community-based participatory (CBPR) model we propose herein, our authorship team includes partnership between clinician researchers diverse...
Situated in Children's National Hospital (CNH)'s Neuropsychology Division, the Gender and Autism Program (GAP) is first clinical service dedicated to needs of autistic gender-diverse/transgender youth. This study describes GAP assessment profiles presents a multi-perspective programmatic review evaluation services.