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Kayla Malone is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Developmental Science and Special Education program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Participatory Research. With nearly a decade of experience supporting autistic individuals across the lifespan in various settings, such as classrooms, clinical environments, and IID-ICF group homes, Kayla's work broadly focuses on enhancing educational and support landscapes for historically underserved autistic people and their families. Their expertise includes school-based research and community-based participatory methods to develop and test the efficacy of evidence-based interventions for autistic adolescents and their families.

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