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A study facilitated by SCERT asks a different question about one of autism's most recognizable features. Restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests, the stimming, the routines, the deep passionate fixations, have long been treated as problems to solve. Reduce them. Redirect them. Ideally, eliminate them. But what if that framing has been missing the point entirely? A scoping review from McGill researchers facilitated by SCERT takes a step back and asks something that sounds simple but...

Communication is a fundamental human need, yet many children on the autism spectrum face significant challenges in expressing themselves. Among them, minimally speaking children often remain unheard, their voices lost in the complexity of available communication tools and limited support systems. Dr. Angela MacDonald-Prégent helped alter this reality, in part, through her research partnership with SCERT (Summit Centre for Education, Research, and Training) and the Psychology of Pragmatics Lab...

Dr. Francesca Happé, a renowned expert in the field of autism research, has made significant contributions to our understanding of autism...