@lizzieshephard
Developmental neuroscientist / psychologist interested in neurodevelopment during the perinatal period and neurodiversity affirming therapies for infants / young children and their caregivers. Profa Dra no Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo
Our first official publication on Participatory Research in Portuguese is now available as a preprint! 🤩
Pesquisa participativa e a importância da inclusão de experts por experiência na pesquisa em saúde - Possibilidades e desafios para o contexto brasileiro osf.io/preprints/ps...
New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
Besides my personal experience, the call clearly has not been designed in collaboration with autistic people and without reading any of the literature on autistic community priorities and without any regard for what autistic people actually want from research.
I worked (unpaid and without recognition as a co-investigator) on the 1kd programme and I would never work with these people again. I was hospitalised with severe pregnancy complications and these people still kept emailing me asking me to finish analyses or people wouldn't get paid.
Very happy to share that Priscilla Godoy and I were awarded a new grant to conduct our implementation+effectiveness study of PACT in the Brazil public health system, which we are co-producing with Brazilian autistic adults and parents. We even have services in the middle of the Amazon...!!
Delighted to start the week with the first paper from my lab being accepted for publication. We report preliminary data on the feasibility of the preemptive iBASI therapy to support the early development of infants with family history of autism and ADHD in Brazil.
A happy day moving my lab (NINA Lab on Instagram) to our new work home at the Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo 😎🤓
Spent the weekend running training for Brazilian professionals in Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy (PACT)... our third training session in Brazil, now a total of 40 new PACT therapists in various parts the country, from Amazonas to Santa Catarina! www.pactbrasil.com.br
🧲⛓️💥❤️Recently I’ve been obsessed with the use of #attachment theory in #therapy. I found a resource that is 🔥: attachment styles, #cross-cultural validity, demystification of #attachment 🔮, stability vs change, intergenerational transmission. @pvrticka.bsky.social
pvrticka.com/attachment/a...