uodsp: FW: AUTISTIC REVIEWERS FOR NEW PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL

[Heidi von Ravensberg]

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From: Elizabeth Wheeler [mailto:ewheeler at uoregon.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 11:08 AM
To: Heidi von Ravensberg
Subject: AUTISTIC REVIEWERS FOR NEW PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL

LOOKING FOR AUTISTIC REVIEWERS FOR NEW PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL - Please share.

Autistic friends - As you may know, I [Christina Nicolaidis] am Editor-in-Chief of a new peer-reviewed journal, Autism in Adulthood. We are just starting our first round of peer reviews for the Preview Issue (which will come out this Spring). We want to have at least one autistic reviewer for every manuscript that is being reviewed. This means we need to (quickly) build a database of potential reviewers who are on the autism spectrum. We are looking for people both within and outside of academia. (Those who have the technical expertise to comment on the science are certainly encouraged to do so, but regardless of one's ability/wish to comment on the technical aspects, we would still like to hear autistic reviewers' insights as to whether the study is important to autistic adults, whether it is written in a respectful manner, whether the lay summary is accessible and interesting, and so on.) If you are interested in being in our database, please email autisminadulthood at pdx.edu.

Please share widely through your networks. Thanks in advance!!!