Lauren Bishop
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Lauren Bishop
@drlaurenbishop.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Social Work at UW-Madison & Waisman Center. Autism and aging researcher. Single parent, hip hop head, and college sports enthusiast.

My primary coping mechanisms are apparently stress cooking and collecting cats
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🧑‍⚕️New #publication in the National Library of Medicine from CDHA affiliate @drlaurenbishop.bsky.social & colleagues

➡️”Using National Survey Data to Estimate Healthcare Communication Disparities for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40069563/
Using National Survey Data to Estimate Healthcare Communication Disparities for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PubMed
There are healthcare communication and satisfaction disparities between adults with and without IDD or other disabilities. Future research should characterise the size and exact nature of these dispar...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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>70% of citing authors misrepresent findings on mortality in autistic people, often falsely claiming “people with autism die 16 years earlier” or have a “54-year life expectancy.”

New OA paper with @drlaurenbishop.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Citation Context Analysis of Autism Mortality and Suicide Findings
This systematic review evaluates the accuracy of citations to a landmark study on premature mortality among autistic people.
jamanetwork.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM