The recent evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unique changes in the home environment: for example, difficulty balancing work, child care, and self-care while managing your own and your child’s worries. While these changes have the potential to increase stress in the familial environment, especially among parents and families with special needs children, they also provide the unique opportunity to develop stronger family climate and relationships. Adaptations to the

The research will set out to further the knowledge on whether NeuroTracker can be used in a classroom setting to improve attention. Furthermore, as a secondary objective, the proposed research will set out to explore whether the improvement in attention can also translate to an improvement in academics. Principal Investigator (PI): Domenico Tullo Institution & Department: McGill University – Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology Supervisor: Dr. Armando Berton

of school-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in home and community. The purpose of this study is to describe the participation...

The aim of this project is to evaluate the effects of a novel reading comprehension intervention program for preschoolers with ASD who...

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often exhibit atypical sensory (e.g., superior visual search and noise detection) cognitive patterns (e.g., difficulty with solving new problems) as well as restricted repetitive behaviors (RRBs, e.g., obsession with numbers, frequent gestures, etc). However, the relationships between these variables are largely unknown. This research study will focus on exploring the interaction between the sensory patterns and cognitive flexibili

This study examined whether a relationship between non-verbal intelligence and cognitive flexibility exists that is specific to adolescents with ASD and lower cognitive abilities (low-functioning), compared to adolescents with Intellectual Developmental Disability (IDD), who also have comparable EF difficulties (Visser et.al., 2015). Specifically, we explored whether there are differences in the relationships between verbal and non-verbal intelligence and cognitive flexibilit

The primary objectives for the proposed study will be to examine children’s (who have cognitive impairments) truthful and false...