I-RAP
Improving Recognition and Understanding of Autism and Personality Disorder
About Us
How did I-RAP come about
Highlights:
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The I-RAP team won some funding from the McPin Foundation on behalf of Words That Carry On, to conduct some research on the relationship between autism and personality disorder, in memory of Lindsay Riddoch.
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This topic had been identified as a priority by a group of people with lived and/or clinical experience of these diagnoses.
Further information:
The I-RAP study came about because our funder – Words That Carry On – wanted to commission research on autism and personality disorder to honour the legacy of Lindsay Riddoch, a mental health campaigner who lived and died with lived experience of these diagnoses. You can read more about Words That Carry On, here and Lindsay, here.
Between 2017 and 2019, the McPin Foundation carried out a scoping exercise on behalf of Words That Carry On. This was where people with lived experience and/or clinical expertise around autism and personality disorder came together to identify priorities for research. The outcome of this was that people wanted to understand more about the relationship between autism and personality disorder. This included why autism may be missed or mis-diagnosed in women and people assigned female at birth. You can read the report here.
Words That Carry On then invited academic teams to bid for funding to carry out research investigating the overlap between the diagnoses of autism and personality disorder. The I-RAP team developed a proposal and were successful in winning this bid.
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