International LACA network
LACA (Language Abilities in Children with Autism) is a network funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and led by Prof. Jeannette Schaeffer from the University of Amsterdam. The network contains twelve European research labs investigating the nature and the development of language (in)abilities in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder across languages.
Ira Noveck
Ira Noveck is Director of Research at the CNRS/ Institut des Sciences Cognitives de Lyon. He is one of the founders of the field of experimental pragmatics, and has developed an interest in pragmatics in Autism.
Ekaterina Ostashchenko
Dr. Ostashchenko investigates language acquisition in typically and atypically developing children. In her projects, she focuses on available evidence about the cognitive processes that are believed to underlie language learning in typical development and try to explore whether and how these processes are disrupted in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Jessica de Villiers
Jessica de Villiers is Associate Professor at University of British Columbia. She is a top expert in the field of clinical discourse analysis, with a focus on Autism.
U21 Autism Research Network
The Network was set up with funds from the Universitas 21 Researcher Resilience Fund, bringing together 7 autism research groups from U21 universities. We aim to make a starting point in addressing challenges to collaboration across borders as well as the lack of diversity and inclusion in autism research.
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Napoleon Katsos
Napoleon Katsos is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. A leading scholar in experimental pragmatics, he also works on bilingualism in typical and atypical development.