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WikiProject Autism

Neurodiversity: all brains are unique.
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Welcome to WikiProject Autism. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Autism and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.

• To improve the overall quality of articles relating to autism and the culture of those on the autism spectrum.
• To encourage collaboration and the formation of a community of those on the autism spectrum and interested non-autistic Wikipedians.
• To achieve a consensus from a wider group on what are sometimes controversial topics, emphasizing a representation from people on the autism spectrum.
• To improve the relevant content from all regions of the world.
• To integrate all of the articles into a consistent classification schema (e.g. category hierarchies)

• Articles relating to the autism spectrum
• Articles about someone who is publicly known to be autistic
• Articles about organizations and groups who support or advocate for autism
• Articles about organizations and groups who mistreat or have prejudice against autistic people

• Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on autism, politics, religion, or anything else. Understand what we mean by a neutral point of view before tackling/editing this sort of topic.
• Citation is your gateway to adding a sentence or paragraph. Do not copy original text as-is; you must reword them as neutrally and non-offensively as possible.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Autism:  ·  history ·  watch ·  refresh · Updated 2022-11-25 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : Correct spelling and grammar in autism treatments and other autism-related articles, uncapitalize “autism” and “autism spectrum” in all articles. Disambiguation : Disambiguate usage of the words autism and autistic, specifying whether they refer to the autism spectrum or to " autistic disorder" as defined by DSM-IV. Stubs : Add {{ autism-stub}} at the bottom of autism-related stub articles. Update : Add information to autism treatments to reflect recent research into and backlash against autism treatments. Verify : Enforce consistency across categories, lists, and templates. For example Category:Films about autism and List of films about autism should have a matching list. Reword : Change instances of “individuals/people/those with autism” to “autistic individuals/people” to reflect the dislike of person-first language among most autistic people.

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Recognised content

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Featured articles

Amphetamine • Bupropion • Coeliac disease • Communication • Dustbin Baby (film) • From the Doctor to My Son Thomas • Ketogenic diet • Courtney Love • Lisa Nowak • Schizophrenia • Tourette syndrome • Kate Winslet

Former featured articles

Asperger syndrome • Autism • Digital media use and mental health • Down syndrome

Good articles

17q12 microdeletion syndrome • Adderall • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder • Augmentative and alternative communication • Barfi! • Beck–Fahrner syndrome • Drew Carey • Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services • Cognitive flexibility • Disability Day of Mourning • Diver communications • Down syndrome • Dyslexia • Epilepsy • Imprinted brain hypothesis • JJ (Skins series 3) • Prince John of the United Kingdom • Joint attention • Koi... Mil Gaya • Jason McElwain • Methamphetamine • Elon Musk • Pathlight School • Postal (comics) • Power Rangers (film) • Michael Savage • Sia • Soon I Will Be Invincible • Speech-generating device • Symmetra • Thiomersal and vaccines • Greta Thunberg • Maia arson crimew

Former good articles

2010 Autism Speaks 400 • Attachment therapy • Roseanne Barr • Borderline personality disorder • Eugenics • MDMA • Mental status examination • Social anxiety disorder

Did you know? articles

17q12 microdeletion syndrome (2021-02-25) • Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2005-04-03) • Animal model of autism (2013-12-18) • Kassiane Asasumasu (2024-04-05) • Paul Ashwood (2013-11-01) • Aspergirls (2014-09-20) • Autism Act 2009 (2009-12-12) • Autism Cymru (2012-09-24) • Autism Every Day (2006-06-08) • Autism Is a World (2005-02-25) • Autism: The Musical (2008-04-03) • Autism's False Prophets (2008-11-19) • The Autistic Brain (2021-01-15) • Beck–Fahrner syndrome (2024-03-18) • Biola Tak Berdawai (2011-09-21) • Bethany Black (2008-07-02) • Susan Boyle (2009-04-22) • Michael Burry (2010-04-06) • Children of the Stars (2010-09-14) • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play) (2013-05-15) • Digital media use and mental health (2019-09-05) • Disability Day of Mourning (2021-03-30) • Dustbin Baby (film) (2008-12-27) • Dyslexia (2015-04-06) • Empathy quotient (2016-05-21) • From the Doctor to My Son Thomas (2014-12-27) • Lisa-ann Gershwin (2015-01-30) • Raphael Gray (2009-05-16) • Mette Ivie Harrison (2018-06-21) • Todd Hodgetts (2012-08-27) • Imprinted brain hypothesis (2021-03-06) • JJ (Skins series 3) (2009-07-20) • Joint attention (2012-04-10) • Illana Katz (2008-12-03) • Mitchell Kilduff (2012-08-29) • Lindsay Mason (2014-05-30) • McGurk effect (2011-12-06) • Methamphetamine (2005-11-03) • Elon Musk (2021-06-15) • Normal People Scare Me (2009-10-08) • Lisa Nowak (2020-10-23) • Parent management training (2014-11-16) • Power Rangers (film) (2018-01-11) • Eric Schopler (2006-07-18) • Sensory friendly (2022-08-22) • Strange Son (2011-09-07) • Greta Thunberg (2019-01-02) • Magdalene Visaggio (2019-09-09) • Emily Willingham (2013-11-26) • Maia arson crimew (2021-06-15)

Featured pictures

File:Dustbin Baby- April in the graveyard.jpg

In the News articles

Julian Assange (1969-12-31) • Prince Abdul Azim of Brunei (2020-10-26) • Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (2022-01-04) • William Christopher (2017-01-01) • Robert Durst (2022-01-10) • Dave Greenfield (2020-05-05) • James Horner (2015-06-23) • Adrian Lamo (2018-03-17) • MMR vaccine and autism (2010-02-02) • Kevin Mitnick (2023-07-23) • Terry Nichols (2004-03-24) • Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (2017-02-10) • Oliver Sacks (2015-08-30) • Donald Triplett (2023-06-18) • Andrew Wakefield (2011-01-06)

Main page featured articles

Amphetamine (2015-04-03) • Asperger syndrome (2004-04-17) • Autism (2005-08-24) • Bupropion (2007-12-21) • Coeliac disease (2008-05-18) • Communication (2024-01-09) • Digital media use and mental health (2019-11-06) • Down syndrome (2006-12-05) • Dustbin Baby (film) (2011-02-26) • From the Doctor to My Son Thomas (2016-11-07) • Ketogenic diet (2010-01-17) • Courtney Love (2017-04-02) • Lisa Nowak (2023-09-14) • Schizophrenia (2005-10-24) • Tourette syndrome (2020-03-03) • Kate Winslet (2019-10-05)

Picture of the day pictures

File:Dustbin Baby- April in the graveyard.jpg (2011-09-25)

Level 2 vital articles

Communication

Level 3 vital articles

Disability • Friendship • Mental disorder

Level 4 vital articles

Amphetamine • Attention • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder • Autism spectrum • Behaviorism • Jeremy Bentham • Bullying • Henry Cavendish • Paul Dirac • Down syndrome • Dyslexia • Empathy • Epilepsy • Intellectual disability • Interpersonal relationship • Introspection • Jigsaw puzzle • Oxytocin • Psychiatry • Schizophrenia • Vaccine hesitancy • Visual impairment

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Autism-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Assessment

Assessment

Peer review

Peer review

Statistics

Index · Statistics · Log

Autism articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	1	1	8		1	12
GA	2	5	6	20		1	34
B	5	15	32	97		1	150
C	8	36	64	343		17	468
Start	5	28	68	491		25	617
Stub	1	1	11	161		6	180
List	1	1	6	8			16
Category					171		171
Disambig					8		8
File					83		83
Project					14		14
Redirect	1	3	3	10	160		177
Template					23		23
Other					20		20
Assessed	24	90	191	1,138	479	51	1,973
Unassessed						1	1
Total	24	90	191	1,138	479	52	1,974
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 6,555			Ω = 4.49

Code	Result
{{ WikiProject Autism}}	Autism NA‑class This article is within the scope of WikiProject Autism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of all aspects of autism and autistic culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AutismWikipedia:WikiProject AutismTemplate:WikiProject AutismAutism articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
{{User WikiProject Autism}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Autism.
{{User:UBX/Autism Accept Not Aware}}	This user supports autism acceptance, not awareness.
{{subst:The Autism Barnstar|1=message ~~~~|2=alt}}	The Autism Barnstar message ~~~~

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Disability
• WikiProject Psychology
• WikiProject Medicine's Psychiatry task force

Sister project links

• Projet Autisme [Project Autism] on French Wikipedia
• วิกิพีเดีย โครงการวิกิออทิซึม [Autism WikiProject] on Thai Wikipedia