AIR-P Presents: Preliminary Findings from GI Wanna Talk about Autism - A Mixed-Methods, Participatory Study of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Autistic Adults

Tuesday, March 21, 2023
4:00pm ET - 5:00pm ET
Location: Zoom

Webinar Description

Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are prevalent in autistic individuals, but little is known about them in autistic adults. "G.I Wanna Talk About Autism" is a mixed-methods, participatory research study with the goal of 1) describing the lived experiences of autistic adults with GI symptoms, and 2) developing recommendations to improve the GI health of this population. Join this webinar to learn about the study's activities and preliminary findings.

The goal of this mixed-methods study, titled “GI Wanna Talk About Autism” is to describe the lived experiences of autistic adults with GI symptoms and develop recommendations to improve the GI health of this population. This study adopts a participatory approach in which a Community Board of autistic and non-autistic adults with diverse professional and lived experiences contributed to the study design, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of findings.

 
Presenters

Calliope Holingue, MPH, PhD is an assistant professor at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research is broadly focused on how to improve the physical health, particularly the gastrointestinal health, of individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions, especially autism.

Maggie Johnson, RN, BSN, PhD Student at Emory University School of Nursing has worked at Children’s of Atlanta as a behavioral emergency response (BERT) nurse. She is interested in how to improve nursing curriculum to prepare nurses to care for autistic patients and how to improve experiences for autistic patient across the lifespan as they interact with the acute care setting.

Please Note

• CART captioning will be provided. For additional disability accommodations please email Elizabeth Schnieder at [email protected] two weeks prior to the event with name of event and accommodation preference in your response.
• There is no cost for this webinar.
• CEUs are not offered for this webinar.
• This webinar will be held on the Zoom Platform. You can test your connection with Zoom before joining the meeting here.
• This webinar will be archived available on the AUCD Webinar Library.