NeuroPeople .org

Centring people in neurodivergent research

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Autistic and ADHD people are commonly the subjects of research, in which the vast majority treats neurodivergence as a problem to be solved, focusing on causes, genetics and "cures". This website was created to oppose this.

There's a wave of neurodivergent-led research and examples of studies carried out in collaboration with neurodivergent people. This work centres on what neurodivergent people want and need, and improving neurodivergent lives. This webpage seeks to highlight this research.
See technical details at the bottom of the page ↓

What's included

  • Lived experience, quality of life, and wellbeing
  • Access to healthcare, education, employment, and housing
  • Person-centred supports and real-world outcomes
  • Participatory and co-produced approaches

What's not included

  • Genetics, biomarkers, and neuroimaging studies
  • Animal models and pre-clinical research
  • Deficit or cure framing without lived-experience relevance

How it works

  • 15 curated journals checked automatically every morning
  • Papers filtered against people-centred inclusion criteria
  • Each paper tagged by topic, neurotype, and language style

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Ordered by publish date (newest first).

Research Focus
Technical details How the automated selection works

Papers are retrieved daily from 15 curated journals via the Crossref API. Each paper is screened automatically: it must mention autism, ADHD, or neurodivergence, and must contain person-focused terms (lived experience, quality of life, access, services, outcomes). Papers focused primarily on genetics, neuroimaging, biomarkers, or animal models are excluded.

Topic tags, neurotype tags, and language framing tags are assigned automatically and are descriptive only. This method is quite rudimentary, and articles are not manually reviewed. Therefore, inclusion does not imply endorsement.

The search strategy is open and always seeking to improve View the code on GitHub.