Ava Gurba (she/her)

Of course. Always looking for a way to improve and partner with the community.

Hi im an autistic researcher on this project. We are doing a lot of community engaged research projects. Please feel free to contact us if you would be interested in hearing about opportunities that may be available to you on similar topics.

Hi I am an autistic researcher working on this project. Location doesnt matter as long as you are within the United States.

Hi im an autistic researcher on this project. We are doing a lot of community engaged research projects. Please feel free to contact us if you would be interested in hearing about opportunities that may be available to you on similar topics.

Hi im an autistic researcher on this project. We are doing a lot of community engaged research projects. Please feel free to contact us if you would be interested in hearing about opportunities that may be available to you on similar topics.

To apply, you will have to email us at kc3673@drexel.edu to get the application. If there are aby other questions, please let me know.

Thank you for sharing this may definitely be relevant.

We definitely may have opportunities on projects that may be a good fit at a later point in time. If that is of interest, please feel free to reach out to us via the email on the flyer.

Very excited to be part of the study team for this participatory research studying examining loneliness in autistic young adults.

Deeply appreciate that. I hope you have success in your efforts and work. It is important. Please feel free to connect and maybe we will cross paths again.

That's super neat! I appreciate your efforts and it's definitely an important perspective to have represented. If you want to hear more about potential opportunities on other projects, please feel free to connect with us via the email in the flyer.

Just want to make sure I was clear abd not misleading. I know that happens a lot in the research community. So, I wanted to make sure it was clear here.

Sorry I realize I might have conflated this project and other opportunities and projects. That's my bad.

This study won't have partnered roles that go beyond this age range, but we are doing active work in this area and are putting together new projects that definitely will.

Absolutely. We have other opportunities like this that definitely extend well beyond age 40 or have no age limit. We may be studying other pertinent topics too.

This study is just age limited because it's developmental in focus. But, we definitely are putting together new projects all the time.

I just want to say this is heard and our long term hope to do lifespan work in this area covering childhood through old age.

Please feel free to reach out to you if that's an interest to you. We are also happy to try to help accommodate you through this process if it is possible.

Hi, I am one of the autistic researchers on the project. Just wanted to follow up and say if you were interested, we will be looking for community partners from all different backgrounds if you want to hear more about opportunities like this to serve as a partner.

Please feel free to email us on the flyer and let us know that and we could initiate that sort of process.

we are a good match...

Hi, I am one of the autistic researchers on the project. Just to clarifying applying. It entails sending us an email letting us know you want to apply. Then, you fill out a brief application form just sharing some basic information about you. And then, if it works out we meet with you to make sure.

Hi, I am one of the autistic researchers on the project. Just wanted to follow up and say if you were interested, we will be looking for community partners from all different backgrounds if you want to hear more about opportunities like this to serve as a partner.

hi, I am one of the autistic researchers working on this project. This is indeed the goal one day. I absolutely agree that we need to be doing this work in older autistic adults for sure and understand relationships with aging.

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Thank you! I am also excited.

Unity in strength: cultivating harmony and camaraderie in partnerships with neurodivergent colleagues to enhance research. Visit the link in the tweet to register for our three sessions.

Please come join the @abctautism.bsky.social for their fall seminar series exploring neurodivergent partnerships in research.

I am very excited to be presenting with my wonderful colleagues. I will be presenting TOMORROW Friday September 12th at 12 to 1 pm EDT

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I'm excited to share that my team is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for a new 5-year participatory, mixed methods longitudinal study focusing on accessing experiences of loneliness across life transitions among autistic young adults!

For information & to apply: careers.drexel.edu/en-us/job/50...

This is a neat paper continuing to build on important work on relationships & rapport for autistic adults in group settings, & continues to add to our understanding of autistic people's relationships & the double empathy problem.

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Abstract for the paper: "A Multidimensional Model of Social Autistic Function and Its Effects on Quality of Life". As summarized, it reads: this study aimed to examine the contributions of social dimensions to the autistic neurotype, and then use causal inference to identify which of them have adverse effects on quality of life. They looked at six social traits: social anhedonia, theory of mind, affective empathy, social anxiety, prosopagnosia, and alexithymia using questionnaires from 366 adults with a wide range of autistic traits, with 78 being diagnosed with autism. They found that five dimensions (all except affective empathy) explained most variation in autistic social traits. However, only alexithymia and social anhedonia were found to adversely affect quality of life. These findings suggest that autistic social function can be explained by variation across multiple dimensions that are specific, neurally and behaviorally, than broad autistic traits. This includes the transdiagnostic constructs of alexithymia and social anhedonia, which disproportionally affected quality of life. These may serve as markers for poor outcomes.

A Multidimensional Model of Social Autistic Function and Its Effects on Quality of Life by Pieslinger et al examines the contributions of socail autistic traits and whether these dimensions affect the quality of life of autistic people. ‪

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