Dr. Lou Thomas
@ljthomas1991.bsky.social
National Research Manager (autism) NHS England | #PsychologiCALL host (paused) | #Autistic #ADHD | lover of cats 🐈⬛ birds 🦅 and mountains ⛰️ | views posted are my own.
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
May 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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
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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
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #INSAR2025
“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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May 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #INSAR2025
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Amazing #INSAR2025 people @mishalex.bsky.social Zahra Josh Japonz Dacumos @carleighpt.bsky.social @ljthomas1991.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Amazing #INSAR2025 people @mishalex.bsky.social Zahra Josh Japonz Dacumos @carleighpt.bsky.social @ljthomas1991.bsky.social
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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.
May 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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.
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.
March 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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.
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...
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.
www.nihr.ac.uk
August 8, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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...
Reposted by Dr. Lou Thomas
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...
today.ucsd.edu/story/comput...
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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August 7, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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...
today.ucsd.edu/story/comput...