ACTE lab

Autism in Context: Theory and Experiment
We are a team of psychologists and linguists studying language and communication in autism
@ULBruxelles

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Join Charlotte and Pauline for a fun testing session in our brand new LabMobile 🚐🛣
Traveling to the university for research can be very costly for families and autistic individuals, so we thought we could bring the lab to their door 😁

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🎉 Congratulations to @CharlotteD68 who has just published her first first-author paper on enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism, together with her co-authors @BelengerMarie @ingemarieeigsti and @KissineMikhail
https://t.co/34UXjNmj9Z

[Pauline Maes @paulinemaes_]

The best way to celebrate the one year anniversary of my move to Boston has to be with a published paper! Thrilled to share my first paper with my postdoc mentor @HelenTager - available open access in Autism and Developmental Language Impairments https://t.co/AfAOQoeC9e

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🎉Congratulations to @FannyPapastamou for her first first-author paper on predictive processing during associative learning in autistic children ! Check out her post below for more information about the study ⬇️⬇️

[Fanny Papastamou @FannyPapastamou]

📃 Our new paper on predictive processing during associative learning in autistic children is out! @CharlotteD68 , Arnaud Destrebecqz, @KissineMikhail
https://t.co/ikIg9py0pn

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Busy two weeks for @CharlotteD68 in Norway ! Today Charlotte gave a presentation at SALC9 on statistical learning and unexpected bilinguals children in the themathic session "non interactive language learning in autism" 🧠💬

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Narrative analyses also suggest group differences but no sex differences, with autistic adolescents producing less coherent narratives than non-autistic adolescents. Taken together, this study suggests that pragmatic abilities measured with narratives align with parental reports.

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And last but definitely not least, @BelengerMarie is presenting a poster at DevCom Oslo ! She is presenting one of her PhD studies in which she investigated sex differences in autism by comparing parental reports vs. narrative productions of autistic and non-autistic adolescents.

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Parental reports (CCC-2) did not show any sex differences, only group differences, suggesting that parents reported more pragmatic difficulties in autistic adolescents (regardless of sex) than in non-autistic adolescents.

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Her results suggest that NIB autistic children have enhance perception and processing of linguistic statistical regularities (non-adjacent dependencies), compared to their autistic non-NIB and non-autistic peers which might indicate a different path of language acquisition.

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Now it's @CharlotteD68's turn to present at DevCom Oslo !

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She's giving a talk on one of her PhD studies on enhanced auditory statistical learning in Non-Interactive Bilingual (NIB) autistic children.

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Thank you to the @DevcomLab for organizing this conference !!

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Today is Day 2 of DevCom Oslo and @KissineMikhail is giving a keynote lecture on "Language and communication in autism" !

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In this talk, he will review evidence suggesting that some autistic individuals can acquire language despite significant socio-communicative atypicalities, and discuss what this means for our understanding of the relationship between pragmatics and language competence.

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Our postdoc @MarielleWeyland is at #INSAR2024 🇦🇺She will give a talk on Thursday on quantitative and qualitative analyses of (pre)verbal production of children with elevated likelihood of autism 💬👦 See you there !

[Mikhail Kissine @KissineMikhail]

Notre centre de recherche sur l’autisme @ActeLab recrute un.e responsable de laboratoire. Profil recherché Master en psychologie ou logopédie (=orthophonie). Rejoignez une équipe multidisciplinaire et dynamique! Détails: https://t.co/65Ne3PDRKv

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Last day @MtgLanguageASD and @CharlotteD68 just gave a super interesting and fantastic talk on pitch discrimination in autistic children with Unexpected Bilingualism 👏👏👏

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On Friday, @PGeelhand has a poster on the effect of neurotype matching on the verbal productions of autistic and non-autistic adults during a referential communication task (poster 56)

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We made it to Duke University for @MtgLanguageASD ! We're looking forward to three exciting days full of discussions about language in autism !

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On Friday, @CharlotteD68 has a poster on statistical learning as a path of language acquisition in autism (poster 91) and on Saturday she will give a talk on pitch discrimination in autistic children with Unexpected Bilingualism (talk session 4)