What labels should be used to describe autism?
Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report
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Show Notes
This week’s podcast includes summaries from two new scientific studies (with comments from one of the studies’ authors @SimonsFoundation and @princetonPPH) about that tackle grouping and labeling the differences across the spectrum into meaningful subtypes. Both provide scientific evidence, including behavioral and biological data, that support the use of different labels. This is more evidence that lumping everyone into one unitary “autism” diagnosis is not meaningful or biologically accurate, and that using computer-driven approaches, different behavioral subtypes map onto behavioral features. This supports approaches that more clearly describe different types of autism for better supports.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40651720
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02224-z
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902224003793?via%3Dihub