Capturing Success at Autistry Studios: A Qualitative Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study presents the results from a qualitative study that examined the effects of participation at Autistry Studios. Located in San, Rafael, CA, Autistry Studios offers pre-vocational training for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Currently, one in 68 people are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and, of that number, less than a quarter transitions into independent living post high school graduation (Trainor, 2012). The mission of Autistry Studios is to help students with ASD become independent adults, by engaging in “project-based therapy.” A setting is provided where individuals with ASD can achieve personal and functional growth with the use of creative resources like art supplies, raw materials, and power tools to pursue and complete a project that is client-centered.\nPurposive and convenience sampling methods were used to identify participants and interview subjects. The results describe the key themes that emerged from semi-structured interviews of three types of stakeholders (participants with ASD, their workshop mentors, and their primary caregivers). Framework analysis discovered consistent themes of improvement in five areas: self-regulation, independence, executive functioning, socialization, and self-esteem. Results also suggest the principles and practices of Autistry Studios and “project-based therapy” are consistent with occupational therapy theory and practice. The Autistry Studios methods could inform occupational therapy practice in developing prevocational programs for individuals with ASD.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".