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5 Ways to Improve Hospitals for Autistic Adults from the AASPIRE Hospital Experiences study

Webinars and Recorded Talks

Nicolaidis, C. (2025, March). Neuro-affirmative approaches to providing care to autistic adults. EPIC Pathways Leadership Series. University of Michigan School of Nursing. (Presented remotely)

Direct Link to Recording


Nicolaidis, C. (2024, June). Autistic Burnout, ADHD Burnout, and Long COVID: Clinical Musings on Chronic Energy Depletion Syndromes in Neurodivergent Populations. Sapienza University; 2024 June; Rome, Italy

Direct Link to Recording.


Nicolaidis, C. (2022, March). Participatory research with autistic adults: Theory and practice [Invited lecture]. Organization for Autism Research (Presented remotely).
Direct Link to Nicolaidis OAR Recorded Webinar Link


Raymaker, D. M. (2021, November). Autism and skilled employment: Lessons from employees, supervisors, and support experts [Paper presentation]. OCALICONLINE 2021.


Nicolaidis C. (2021, October). Inclusive autism research: Matching practice to theory [Invited lecture]. Brain, Body, and Cognition Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (Presented remotely).
Meeting on Inclusive Research on Autism 2021 Direct Link to Recording – YouTube (talk starts at 1:46:00)
Direct link to single talk by Dr. Nicolaidis


Nicolaidis, C. (2021, May). The role of creativity in ensuring science has real world impact: Walking the talk and challenging the rules [Invited presentation]. Interdisciplinary Autism Research Festival 2021, Leeds, UK (Presented remotely).
IAR Festival 2021 Direct Link to Recording


Nicolaidis, C. (2021, April). The AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit: Improving healthcare for autistic adults [Invited webinar panel]. Organization for Autism Research.
Direct link to organization for Autism Research Webinar


Raymaker, D.M. (2021, February). Understanding, Defining, and Measuring Autistic Burnout [Invited webinar panel]. AIDE Canada.
Direct link to AIDE Canada Webinar (talk starts at 11:50).


Raymaker, D. (2020, November). Neurodiversity Summit: The Value of Participatory Autism Research: AASPIRE’s Autistic Burnout Study [Webinar]. UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
Direct link to UC Davis Recording


Raymaker, D. (2020, November). Autistic Burnout: Defining, Measuring, and Understanding with Dr. Dora Raymaker [Webinar]. New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence.
Direct link to Raymaker NJACE Burnout Webinar


Nicolaidis, C. (2020, November). Healthcare for autistic adults [Webinar]. New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence.
Direct link to NJACE Healthcare Webinar


Nicolaidis, C. (2020, October). Authentically including autistic adults as co-investigators and research participants [Webinar]. New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence.
Direct link to Nicolaidis NJACE Inclusion Webinar


Raymaker, D. (2020, October). Understanding the perspective of the autistic community in research [Webinar]. New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence.
Direct link to Raymaker NJACE Inclusion Webinar


Nicolaidis, C. (2020, September). Measuring patient-reported outcomes in transition-age youth with disabilities that affect cognition. In Measures of success: defining and measuring transition outcomes [Speaker and panelist] Navigating Pediatric to Adult Health Care: Lost in Transition Workshop, hosted by the National Institutes of Health Pediatric Research Consortium, Virtual.
NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Slides.

NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Recorded Webinar (Nicolaidis starts 3:34:20)


Raymaker, D.M. (2020, July). Improving healthcare for adults on the autism spectrum [Invited talk on AASPIRE’s healthcare toolkit]. West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities, Virtual.
WVUCED Grand Rounds Webpage
WVUCED Direct Link to Video
WVUCED Ground Rounds Full Transcript


Raymaker, D. (2020, July). AUTISTIC BURNOUT: In Conversation with transforming autism – Dora Raymaker [Interview on the findings from AASPIRE’s study to understand and define autistic burnout]. Transforming Autism Project, Virtual.
Raymaker Interview Direct Link to Video


Raymaker, D.M. (2019, July). Autism 206: Transition to adulthood: “My physical body and mind started shutting down”: Autistic burnout and the costs of coping and passing.” Seattle Children’s Hospital Autism 200 Series invited lecture. 
Autism 200 Series Video


Raymaker, D.M., Nicolaidis, C. & AASPIRE Team (2019, July). “My physical body and mind started shutting down”: Autistic burnout and the costs of coping and passing” [Invited talk for pre-meeting on mental health]. International Society for Autism Research.
Autistic Burnout Direct Link to Video


Nicolaidis, C. (2019, May). Using a neurodiversity paradigm in autism research [Invited lecture]. Neurodiversity Summit, University of California MIND Institute, Sacramento, CA.
Direct link to neurodiversity recording


Raymaker, D.M., & Nicolaidis, C. (2018, August). “INSAR Summer Institute: Equitable inclusion of autistic adults as co-researchers. International Society for Autism Research, Montreal, CA.
INSAR Inclusion Webpage and Video


Duff, C., Nicolaidis, C., Mehari, M. (2018, February). Serving adults with disabilities on the autism spectrum [Webinar]. CMS Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO) in collaboration with The Lewin Group as part of the Disability-Competent Care (DCC) workstream
Direct link to CMS Medicare-Medicaid Webinar


Nicolaidis, C. (2012, February). AASPIRE and community based participatory research [Webinar] Autism Now.
Autism Now Slides
Autism Now Webcast


Nicolaidis, C. (2011, September). Effective partnering with the autistic self-advocacy community to advance intervention and services research. Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Autism Research Workshop, National Institutes of Health.


Podcasts

Raymaker, D. & Nicolaidis, C. (2019, June). Autism Matters Podcast Number 28: Robyn Steward interviews Dora Raymaker and Christina Nicolaidis, co-founders of AASPIRE, to discuss their practice-based guidelines for the inclusion of autistic adults in research as co-researchers and study participants [Audio podcast].
Autism Matters Podcast

Nicolaidis, C., & Raymaker D. (2017, December). Spectrumly Speaking ep. 30.: Neurodiverse working relationships, with Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH and Dora Raymaker, Ph.D. of AASPIRE. [Audio podcast].
Spectrumly Speaking Podcast

Han, H., Nicolaidis, C., & Raymaker, D. (2015, September). Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Beyond the Manuscript 9.2: Community based participatory research to adapt health and violence measures for use by people with developmental disabilities. [Audio podcast].
Beyond the Manuscript Podcast

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