Saade Sabine, Bockstal-Fieulaine Benoît, Gillespie-Lynch Kristen, Besche-Richard Chrystel, Boujut Émilie, Johnson Harrison Ashley, Cappe Émilie
Department of Psychology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Department of Psychology, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France.
Autism Adulthood. 2023 Sep 1;5(3):289-300. doi: 10.1089/aut.2022.0080. Epub 2023 Aug 30.
Autistic people in France have called for community education to reduce autism stigma. As such, training is needed to help university students appreciate autistic peers and autistic people they may work with in their future careers.
We adapted an autistic-affirming training from a training developed in other cultural contexts and evaluated it with 107 university students in France using a pretest-post-test design.
Questionnaire responses suggested that our brief online training helped improve attitudes toward inclusion, autism knowledge, and stigma among future educators and psychologists in France. Participants' open-ended definitions of autism revealed increased alignment with the neurodiversity movement after training.
Findings suggest that wider-scale autistic-led adaptations of autism trainings like the one described in this report could begin to ameliorate autism stigma in France.
法国的自闭症患者呼吁开展社区教育以减少对自闭症的污名化。因此，需要进行培训，以帮助大学生理解他们未来职业生涯中可能会共事的自闭症同龄人及自闭症患者。
我们对在其他文化背景下开发的一项自闭症肯定性培训进行了改编，并采用前测-后测设计对法国的107名大学生进行了评估。
问卷调查结果表明，我们简短的在线培训有助于改善法国未来教育工作者和心理学家对融合的态度、自闭症知识以及污名化观念。参与者对自闭症的开放式定义显示，培训后他们与神经多样性运动的一致性有所提高。
研究结果表明，像本报告中所描述的这种由自闭症患者主导的更广泛的自闭症培训改编，可能会开始改善法国对自闭症的污名化现象。
