Contributors & acknowledgments

 

This Learning Center exists because of a lot of generous people, and we are deeply, genuinely grateful to every one of them — the neurodivergent advocates who shared their own lives, the clinicians who shaped the care behind it, the people who built and checked the technical pieces, and the thinkers whose work lit the way. Thank you, all of you.

 

Lived-experience voices

 

Ashley YLK — Autism Advocate & Educator, She Rocks the Spectrum.

 

Dr. Michelle Karth — Autism Advocate & Scientific Advisor, PhD Behavioral Neuroscience (Purdue University), Adult Autism Assessment Center.

 

Brooke Tidwell — Autism Advocate & Parenting Specialist; AuDHD educator, Parenting Autism Therapy Center.

 

New Path Family clinical team

 

All are New Path clinicians.

 

Nara Ahn

 

Alyssa Bayus

 

Lea Choi

 

Daniel Chung

 

Cassie Clayton

 

Conor Cunningham

 

Shea Davis

 

Jennifer Evans

 

Malori Evans

 

Shandy Grantham

 

Robin Greenblat

 

Danielle Grossman

 

Jamison Haase

 

Kimberly Hawks

 

Maring Higa

 

Colleen Kahn

 

Joseph Kaiser

 

Blaze Lazarony

 

Chris Mercurio

 

Dr. Harry Motro

 

Jenny Pan

 

Leila Pirnia

 

Stephen Robertson

 

Nancy Rushing

 

Amanda Silvester

 

Adela Stone

 

Tamala Takahashi

 

Jen Terrell

 

Rachel Wheeler

 

Jory Wilson

 

Technical contributions

 

Jasmyne Mena

 

Cassondra McIntyre

 

With gratitude — the thinkers whose work shaped ours

 

We borrowed, learned from, and built on the frameworks of many, across all five programs — a few of them, grouped by the program where their work most shaped ours:

 

Foundations — The Neurodivergent Brain

 

Judy Singer — the neurodiversity paradigm.

 

Dr. Nick Walker — neurodiversity & neuroqueer theory.

 

Dr. Damian Milton — the double empathy problem.

 

Dr. Catherine Crompton — the research that put double empathy to the test.

 

Dr. Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser & Dr. Wenn Lawson — monotropism.

 

Dr. Megan Anna Neff — neuro-affirming frameworks (Neurodivergent Insights).

 

Dr. William Dodson — the interest-based nervous system & rejection sensitivity.

 

Dr. Stephen Porges — polyvagal theory.

 

Dr. Dan Siegel — the window of tolerance.

 

Dr. Dora Raymaker — autistic burnout research.

 

Dr. Laura Hull & Dr. Will Mandy — camouflaging research & the CAT-Q.

 

Dr. Monique Botha & David Frost — the minority-stress model of autistic wellbeing.

 

Dr. Helen Taylor — complementary cognition.

 

Christine Miserandino — spoon theory.

 

Dr. Devon Price — unmasking & autistic labor.

 

Dr. Kristy Forbes — autistic & AuDHD identity support.

 

Parenting Autism

 

Dr. Mona Delahooke — behavior as a nervous-system signal.

 

Elizabeth Newson — the first description of the PDA profile.

 

Dr. Elizabeth O’Nions — measuring demand avoidance (the EDA-Q).

 

Linda Murphy — declarative language.

 

Dr. Winnie Dunn — the sensory-processing framework.

 

Dr. Steven Kapp — stimming as self-regulation, and difference over deficit.

 

Dr. Richard Ryan & Dr. Edward Deci — self-determination theory.

 

Dr. Kristin Neff — self-compassion.

 

Dr. Ruth Feldman, with Butler & Randall — parent-child co-regulation & synchrony.

 

Dr. Pauline Boss — ambiguous loss.

 

Peter Vermeulen — identity-positive disclosure.

 

Andrea Loewen Nair — after-school restraint collapse.

 

The Neurodiverse Couple

 

Michael White & David Epston — narrative therapy & externalizing the problem.

 

Dr. Murray Bowen — family-systems differentiation.

 

Drs. Peter Gollwitzer & Paschal Sheeran — implementation intentions (if-then plans).

 

Maxine Aston — the Cassandra phenomenon.

 

Dr. Elizabeth Pellicano & Dr. David Burr — the Bayesian account of autistic perception.

 

Dr. John Gottman — shared meaning & the rituals of connection.

 

Eva Mendes — neurodiverse-couple therapy.

 

The Autistic Woman

 

Sarah Bargiela, Robyn Steward & Dr. Will Mandy — the female autism phenotype & late diagnosis.

 

Dr. Sarah Cassidy — camouflaging & mental-health risk.

 

Dr. Eilidh Cage & Jessica Troxell-Whitman — the contexts and costs of camouflaging.

 

Dr. Punit Shah & colleagues — alexithymia, interoception & autism.

 

Dr. Geraldine Downey & Scott Feldman — the rejection-sensitivity model.

 

Dr. Rachel Moseley — autistic experiences of menopause.

 

Drs. Vikram Jaswal & Nameera Akhtar — being versus appearing socially uninterested.

 

The Adult ADHD Course

 

Dr. Russell Barkley & Dr. Thomas Brown — the self-regulation & executive-function model of ADHD.

 

Dr. Edward Hallowell & Dr. John Ratey — a strengths-based understanding of ADHD.

 

Dr. Stephen Faraone — the genetics of ADHD & the International Consensus Statement.

 

Dr. Nora Volkow — the dopamine reward-pathway account of ADHD motivation.

 

Dr. Philip Shaw — ADHD as delayed — not deviant — cortical maturation.

 

Dr. Edmund Sonuga-Barke — delay aversion & the dual-pathway model.

 

Dr. Sari Solden — the overlooked inner world of women with ADHD.

 

Melissa Orlov — how ADHD patterns play out in relationships.

 

Dr. Steven Safren & Dr. Mary Solanto — CBT & metacognitive skills for adult ADHD.

 

This Learning Center is not authored or endorsed by any of the individuals named above; we simply applied, and are grateful for, their published work.

 

More from New Path Family

 

Free, self-paced courses: The Neurodivergent Brain, The Neurodiverse Couple, The Autistic Woman, Parenting Autism, The Adult ADHD Course.

 

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