Jennifer Fafa is a doctoral candidate. within the ACTE project. She investigates the association between sleep disorders, language learning, and cognition in autistic and neurotypical children as part of her thesis. Her primary research interest is on the impact of sleep on language learning and cognition in neurotypical and atypical children, with an emphasis on ASD. More specifically, she would want to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to improve early autism diagnosis while considering socio-cultural influences in West Africa