Michigan State University, USA.
Autism. 2022 May;26(4):988-994. doi: 10.1177/13623613211043643. Epub 2021 Sep 17.
Black autistic people experience anti-Black racism when interacting with service systems and the clinicians in those systems. In this article, we describe the various steps families take to get services and how anti-Black racism makes that process even harder. We discuss research that shows the negative effects of anti-Black racism in autism assessment, treatment, and quality of care. We then provide five recommendations that clinicians should follow to reduce anti-Black racism in the autism field: (1) find Black autistic people and listen to their opinions about your organization, (2) always keep learning about how your profession promotes anti-Black racism, (3) recognize that the process of a clinician learning to be culturally humble takes time and is never "complete," (4) pay attention to all of the steps that families must take to receive autism services and how these steps are even harder for Black individuals, and (5) advocate for your organization to make systems-level changes in their policies and procedures.
黑人自闭症患者在与服务系统及其系统中的临床医生互动时会经历反黑人种族主义。在本文中，我们描述了家庭为获得服务而采取的各种步骤，以及反黑人种族主义如何使这一过程更加艰难。我们讨论了表明自闭症评估、治疗和护理质量中反黑人种族主义的负面影响的研究。然后，我们提供了临床医生应该遵循的五条建议，以减少自闭症领域的反黑人种族主义：（1）寻找黑人自闭症患者，听取他们对您所在组织的意见；（2）始终了解您的专业如何促进反黑人种族主义；（3）认识到临床医生学习文化谦逊的过程需要时间，并且永远不会“完成”；（4）注意家庭必须采取的所有步骤来获得自闭症服务，以及这些步骤对黑人个体来说更加困难；（5）倡导您的组织在其政策和程序方面进行系统层面的变革。
