Short report: Call to action for autism clinicians in response to anti-Black racism.
Diondra Straiton, Aksheya Sridhar
PMID 34533064WHAT IT FOUND
This paper calls on autism clinicians to actively address anti-Black racism in assessment and care, citing existing disparities in diagnosis and service access.
It provides no new data, trials, or outcomes, so there is nothing here to change clinical practice based on.
What this paper is
This is a call to action and position paper, not a study. It summarizes existing literature on disparities in autism diagnosis and care for Black individuals and offers recommendations for clinicians, but reports no new data, methods, or outcomes. There are no findings here to act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the statistics cited (such as the 2.6 times higher misdiagnosis rate) as new findings from this paper. These are summaries of previous research used to build an argument; this paper itself reports no original data.