Study of Australian School Leavers with Autism (SASLA) (15-25 years)
Historically, the adult years have been ignored in autism research, despite the fact that these years represent the greatest proportion of individuals’ lives. Hence, limited guidance exists for autistic people and their families about trajectories across the lifespan, and individuals experience high levels of unemployment, mental illness, disengagement, and significant dependency on family members.
The long term aims of this project were to identify and describe the comprehensive and unique profiles of Australian autistic school leavers. This project has delivered a comprehensive and unique profile of Australian adults and provided them with the capacity to find a meaningful place in society. The study has formed a report that identified a number of autism specific variables, not collected anywhere in the world before.
Collaborations between Autism CRC's longitudinal research teams have led to closely aligned study design and common data points, enabling rich datasets to emerge. The combination of the datasets allowed reporting of results on participants with a broad age range, from 15-80 years to gain a broader, lifelong understanding in key areas. These longitudinal studies yielded many important insights into the experiences of Australia’s autistic community and contributed to the critical evaluation and refinement of a range of established measures for use with autistic people. More than 120 peer-reviewed publications have been published using data from our longitudinal studies. All of these resources are listed on Knowledge Centre and on corresponding project pages.
We would like to thank the many participants who gave significant time in completing the surveys for this study. Longitudinal data from this study will be made available for approved future research purposes through the Australian Autism Biobank in late 2023.
Reports
- Published 11 Aug 2022
Resources
- Published 18 Feb 2021
- Published 18 Feb 2021
- Published 12 Mar 2020
- Published 11 Feb 2019
Publications
- Published 3 Oct 2023
- Published 30 May 2023
- Published 3 May 2023
- Published 11 Feb 2023
- Published 16 Sep 2022
- Published 26 Feb 2022
- Published 12 Feb 2022
- Published 29 Jun 2021
- Published 29 Jun 2021
- Published 3 May 2021
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- Published 15 Mar 2021
- Published 13 Jul 2020
- Published 25 Jun 2020
- Published 10 Jun 2020
- Published 21 Apr 2020
- Published 13 Mar 2020
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- Published 14 Aug 2019
- Published 12 Jun 2019
- Published 1 May 2019
- Published 7 Mar 2019
- Published 21 Feb 2019
- Published 19 Dec 2018
- Published 19 Dec 2018
- Published 23 Aug 2018
- Published 1 Aug 2018
- Published 6 Jul 2018
- Published 23 May 2018
- Published 16 Apr 2018
- Published 21 Nov 2017
- Published 12 Oct 2017
- Published 4 Oct 2017
- Published 18 Sep 2017
- Published 31 Aug 2017
- Published 21 Jul 2017
- Published 2 Jun 2017
- Published 10 May 2017
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- Published 1 Mar 2017
- Published 1 Oct 2016
- Published 18 Aug 2016
- Published 9 Jul 2015
Program
AdulthoodProject code
3.016RCProject Leader(s)
- Amanda Richdale, La Trobe University