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SUMMARY:Autism Research for Autistic Flourishing  - Liz Pellicano\, Univer
 sity College London
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CONTACT:Elizabeth Weir
DESCRIPTION:Despite enormous advances in autism science\, the lives of aut
 istic people remain deeply difficult in every country across the globe. Ev
 en in advanced economies\, autistic people die\, on average\, many years e
 arlier than non-autistic people. And they experience substantial economic 
 and social inequalities throughout their lives\, too. This is not the resu
 lt of under-investment. The USA’s NIH alone spent USD$2.5 billion on aut
 ism research in the decade from 2008 – 2018. This leads to the inevitabl
 e conclusion that autism science is being directed to the wrong end – fo
 cusing largely on questions which\, although fundamental do not have an im
 mediate impact on autistic people’s lives – or the pipeline from scien
 tific discovery to translation and real-world implementation is failing\, 
 or both. Spurred by these possibilities\, this talk investigates the under
 lying problems confronting autism research and asks what we can do about i
 t\, in both the short and the longer term. 
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU
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