We believe parents deserve to know exactly how the guidance they read here gets made — including the people who write it, the sources we check it against, and the funding model that keeps it free of advertiser influence.
Autism Blog exists to translate the best available research and lived experience into language parents of autistic children can act on — without selling anything, without scaring anyone, and without claiming expertise we don't have.
We are content writers and researchers who happen to be parents of autistic children. We are not clinicians, therapists, doctors, or licensed evaluators of any kind. Everything published here is grounded in primary sources you can verify yourself — and never substitutes for the advice of a qualified specialist who can directly assess your child.
Article topics come from three sources, in this order:
We do not write topics because they're profitable. We do not accept sponsored content or paid topic placements.
Every article begins with primary-source reading. The accepted source hierarchy:
We do not paraphrase what another blog or news article said about a study. We read the study itself. If a claim cannot be sourced to one of the categories above, it doesn't get published.
The first draft of every article is written by a parent of an autistic child who has personal experience with the topic. The article is voiced by that person — not by a marketing team, not by AI, not by an outsourced contributor. The voice you read on Autism Blog is real.
Our writers don't get topic quotas. They get topics matched to their lived experience and the time to research them properly. A 2,500-word article typically takes 8–12 hours of research and writing.
Every article goes through fact-checking before publication. The fact-check process:
The fact-check is performed by a different team member than the writer. Where wording interprets a source, the source is linked directly.
Before publication, every article is read by two parents from our reader panel. They tell us where we got too technical, where we sounded condescending, where we used jargon, and where the article missed a question they would have been asking. Their feedback shapes the final draft.
Every article shows a "Last updated" date at the top and bottom. We review every article quarterly against new research, updated guidelines, and community feedback. Outdated articles are revised — never quietly removed or back-dated.
If we get a fact wrong, we correct it visibly: the original text is struck through, the correction is added, and a "Correction" note is appended at the top of the article. We do not silently edit history.
Found an error? Email [email protected] with the article URL and the issue. We respond within 48 hours and correct verified errors within 7 days.
We use AI (large language models) for these specific tasks:
We do not use AI to:
Articles credited to a parent writer are written by that parent writer.
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We accept no sponsored content, no paid links, no affiliate revenue from therapy companies or product manufacturers, and no display advertising. We may add affiliate disclosures for individual products in the future (books, sensory tools, etc.) — and if we do, every affiliate link will be clearly marked.
Our writers receive no payment from any external party for the content they produce. They are paid by Nexus Digital Marketing for their writing time at standard freelance rates.
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