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From anonymous subject to engaged stakeholder: Enriching participant experience in autistic-language-use research

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Research for All, Volume: 4, Issue: 2

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The Talking Together community-engagement pilot project brought together pairs of autistic and non-autistic strangers to: (1) talk about their experiences of loneliness in their local city; and (2) think about potential, co-produced responses to the problem. The project had evolved as a secondary ai...

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