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Families, Caregivers and Communities

Research partnerships, family perspectives and community participation.

GARC / Knowledge / Families, Caregivers and Communities

Clarify whose perspective a measure records and how autistic participants contribute to decisions. Family and community knowledge can inform research design without being treated as interchangeable with every individual’s preferences or outcomes.

Research purpose

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Published explanations

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What Makes Autism Research Inclusive?

Inclusive research is a set of practical decisions about participation, communication and influence. It is more informative to describe who could change the research than to apply an inclusion label without explaining the working arrangements.

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Why Research Priorities Matter

Research priorities make choices visible: which uncertainties matter, to whom and for what purpose. A priority list becomes more credible when the process and the limits of participation are documented.

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Research Participation and Co-Production

Co-production concerns how people work together and share influence over research. It should be described through roles, decisions and relationships, rather than treated as a label that guarantees quality or authorship.

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Planning Research on Autism Service Access and Pathways

Service-access research should specify the point in a pathway being studied and the population eligible to appear in its data. An appointment count cannot explain every barrier experienced by people who never reached the service.

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How to Read Autism Research Samples and Recruitment

A research sample is the group observed in a study; recruitment describes how people were invited and enrolled. To judge what a result may represent, readers need the target population, sampling frame, recruitment route, eligibility rules and the people who took part. A large sample alone does not guarantee broad representation.

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