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Dr. Lou Thomas @ljthomas1991.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Poster presentation from my postdoc with @cmanning.bsky.social went well, thank you to everyone who came along to chat! Feeling very sleepy for the final day of #insar2025

Lou and Cathy smiling standing on either side of Lou’s poster

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 02/05/2025

Learning about autism in a neutral & non-stigmatizing manner, and through the lens of autistic lived experience, benefits autistic children’s self-understanding, emergent autistic identity, sense of belonging, and their communication/self-advocacy skills. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #INSAR2025

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“I like being autistic”: Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children

Background Despite receiving autism diagnoses in early life, autistic children are not routinely supported to understand these diagnoses post-diagnostically ([1][1]). Consequently, they typically grow...

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Dr. Lou Thomas @ljthomas1991.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’ll be presenting some of my postdoc work on Friday, 6-7pm, I’ll be in the session 6-6:30pm. Come and chat to me and find out more.

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Dr. Lou Thomas @ljthomas1991.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Two new NIHR funding calls announced today. To test behavioural interventions to treat anxiety disorders in children and young people, and adults with moderate to severe learning disability (including autistic and non-autistic). 2-stage process, stage 1 deadline 30/07. Links in comments.

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Dr. Lou Thomas @ljthomas1991.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Very happy to say that my team have played a part in influencing NIHR to put out this call to fund a clinical trial of a high-intensity NHS talking therapy protocol adapted for autistic adults www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/2487...

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24/87 CBT adapted for autistic adults with a mental health problem

The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 07/08/2024

Today in autistic people saying "I told you so": Nearly 90% of researchers who develop robots for autistic people **didn’t bother to ask autistic people if they need the technologies**, per UCSD autistic researcher Naba Rizvi: today.ucsd.edu/story/comput...

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Computer Science Researchers Are Getting it Wrong When it Comes to Autism Inclusivity

Computer science Ph.D. student Naba Rizvi investigates the stereotypes about neurodiversity perpetuated by computer science research in a new study.

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