Kristen Gillespie-Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Gillespie-Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillespie-Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | GILLESPIE-LYNCH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assessing Computational Thinking and Creativity Skills in Games Developed by Autistic Youth in Online Game Design and Employment Workshops
Enjoy your time and be confident”
A participatory approach to iteratively adapting game design workshops to empower autistic youth
Introduction Autistic people face systemic barriers to fair employment. Informal learning may promote the self-determination transition-age autistic youth need to overcome and/or transform these barriers. This report focuses on the iterative process of developing video game design workshops guided by feedback from autistic students about instructional strategies they found engaging. This study is part of a three-year-long NSF-funded program of re…
Come as You Are
Singer intended for neurodiversity to be a new category of intersectionality. However, intersectionality has been neglected in autism research and practice. This paper aims to inform an intersectional approach to autism by exploring autistic identity development in relation to other marginalized identities. We reviewed literature about neurodiversity, intersectionality, discrimination, and the identity development of autistic people, racial/ethni…
Theatre as a tool to reduce autism stigma? evaluating ‘Beyond Spectrums
Drawing from ‘intergroup contact theory,’ which states that direct contact between groups can reduce biases, we developed a theatrical intervention to provide members of a college community with positive contact with autistic people and their stories. Autistic people helped create and perform the piece. Audience responses revealed reduced stigma towards and increased knowledge about autism following the performance. Audience members reported that…
Gestural Theory
Deficit, difference, or both? Autism and neurodiversity
The neurodiversity movement challenges the medical model's interest in causation and cure, celebrating autism as an inseparable aspect of identity. Using an online survey, we examined the perceived opposition between the medical model and the neurodiversity movement by assessing conceptions of autism and neurodiversity among people with different relations to autism. Participants (N = 657) included autistic people, relatives and friends of autist…
The role of dialogue in the ontogeny and phylogeny of early symbol combinations
What are the evolutionary and developmental origins of linguistic creativity? Cross-species comparison of the clade consisting of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human suggests that creative word combinations arise from conversation. Analysis of conversational data shows that novel symbol combinations are initially dependent upon conversational input – through the processes of deferred imitation and joint construction – for a bonobo and a chimpanzee expo…
Nonhuman primates do declare! A comparison of declarative symbol and gesture use in two children, two bonobos, and a chimpanzee
Deficit, difference, or both? Autism and neurodiversity
The neurodiversity movement challenges the medical model's interest in causation and cure, celebrating autism as an inseparable aspect of identity. Using an online survey, we examined the perceived opposition between the medical model and the neurodiversity movement by assessing conceptions of autism and neurodiversity among people with different relations to autism. Participants (N = 657) included autistic people, relatives and friends of autist…
Nonhuman primates do declare! A comparison of declarative symbol and gesture use in two children, two bonobos, and a chimpanzee
The role of dialogue in the ontogeny and phylogeny of early symbol combinations
What are the evolutionary and developmental origins of linguistic creativity? Cross-species comparison of the clade consisting of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human suggests that creative word combinations arise from conversation. Analysis of conversational data shows that novel symbol combinations are initially dependent upon conversational input – through the processes of deferred imitation and joint construction – for a bonobo and a chimpanzee expo…
Nonhuman primates do declare! A comparison of declarative symbol and gesture use in two children, two bonobos, and a chimpanzee
Deficit, difference, or both? Autism and neurodiversity
The neurodiversity movement challenges the medical model's interest in causation and cure, celebrating autism as an inseparable aspect of identity. Using an online survey, we examined the perceived opposition between the medical model and the neurodiversity movement by assessing conceptions of autism and neurodiversity among people with different relations to autism. Participants (N = 657) included autistic people, relatives and friends of autist…
Gestural Theory
Theatre as a tool to reduce autism stigma? evaluating ‘Beyond Spectrums
Drawing from ‘intergroup contact theory,’ which states that direct contact between groups can reduce biases, we developed a theatrical intervention to provide members of a college community with positive contact with autistic people and their stories. Autistic people helped create and perform the piece. Audience responses revealed reduced stigma towards and increased knowledge about autism following the performance. Audience members reported that…
Come as You Are
Singer intended for neurodiversity to be a new category of intersectionality. However, intersectionality has been neglected in autism research and practice. This paper aims to inform an intersectional approach to autism by exploring autistic identity development in relation to other marginalized identities. We reviewed literature about neurodiversity, intersectionality, discrimination, and the identity development of autistic people, racial/ethni…
A participatory approach to iteratively adapting game design workshops to empower autistic youth
Introduction Autistic people face systemic barriers to fair employment. Informal learning may promote the self-determination transition-age autistic youth need to overcome and/or transform these barriers. This report focuses on the iterative process of developing video game design workshops guided by feedback from autistic students about instructional strategies they found engaging. This study is part of a three-year-long NSF-funded program of re…
Enjoy your time and be confident”
Assessing Computational Thinking and Creativity Skills in Games Developed by Autistic Youth in Online Game Design and Employment Workshops
Psychology (7 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Autism (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Bonobo (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works)