Multimodal evidence and technology−enabled accommodations for autistic adults: an evidential framework for autism research and practice (opens in new tab)

Autistic adults often face challenges to the legitimacy of their own neurology, in part because narrowly deficit-centric frameworks continue to privilege externally observed impairment over converging evidence from neuroscience, physiology, lived experience, and technology. This article proposes evidential pluralism — grounded in the Russo-Williamson thesis that causal inference in the health sciences requires the integration of difference-making and mechanistic evidence — as a framework for ...