Advocacy, Self Advocacy and Autism Ranking:

There are a number of limitations to most of the research studies published to date. For example:

The research papers which provided descriptions of advocacy or self-advocacy movements did not provide any kind of scientific evaluation of the advocacy provided by those movements.
The research papers which used case studies showing the benefits of, and the difficulties in obtaining, advocacy and self-advocacy did not provide any kind of scientific evaluation of the advocacy provided
The research papers which examined the effectiveness of advocacy training did not provide any kind of scientific evaluation of any advocacy undertaken by the participants following that training.
The meta-analysis of parents’ experiences of advocating for their children did not provide any kind of scientific evaluation of the advocacy they provided.

For a comprehensive list of potential flaws in research studies, please see ‘Why some autism research studies are flawed’.

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