-Postdoctoral program in psychiatry
-Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences, option psychiatric sciences
Université de Montréal, 2021 –
Mechanics of acquisition and atypical sequential development of language in autism
Supervised by Laurent Mottron, Université de Montréal
Awards and recognitions
2020 Second best poster presentation, Transforming Autism Care Consortium (TACC) annual conference, total amount: $100
2019 Audience Award, Université de Montréal Department of Psychiatry Research Day, total amount: $250
2019 Quebec Autism Research Training (QART) Mobility Award
2018 Selected for the Quebec Autism Research Training (QART) Program
2018 Quebec Autism Research Training Program (RTSA/TACC) scholarship, total amount: $20,000, portion of funding received: $20,000
2018 Graduate studies pathway scholarship from the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal, Total amount: $8,000, Portion of funding received: $2,667
Publications
Scientific articles
Gagnon, D., Zeribi, A., Douard, É., Courchesne, V., Rodríguez-Herreros, B., Huguet, G., Jacquemont, S., et al. (2021). Bayonet-shaped language development in autism with regression : A retrospective study. Molecular Autism, 12(1), 35. https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-021-00444-8
Mottron, L., Ostrolenk, A., & Gagnon, D. (2021). In Prototypical Autism, the Genetic Ability to Learn Language Is Triggered by Structured Information, Not Only by Exposure to Oral Language. Genes, 12(8), 1112. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/8/1112
Oral presentations
Gagnon, D., Mottron, L., Communicative language development after an early language regression, 2022, invited presenter by the research group on Autism ACTE, Brussels, March 30.
Gagnon, D., Communicative language development in autistic children who have experienced early language regression, 2021, Journal club du programme DI TSA de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, Montreal, July 27.
Gagnon, D., Zeribi, A., Douard, E., Courchesne, V., Rodriguez-Herreros, B., Jacquemont, S., Huguet, G., Loum, M.A., Mottron, L., Distinct Speech Progression Following an Early SpeechRegression in Autism: A Retrospective Study on 2047 Children, 2020 International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Seattle, May 6-9. Event cancelled due to global pandemic COVID-19, abstracts published online.
Gagnon, D., Mottron, L., Recovering from language regression, 2019 Department of Psychiatry of the University of Montreal, Montreal, October 3.
Gagnon, D., Mottron, L., Communicative and phenotypic/genetic characteristics related to an enriched language development profile in children with autism who have experienced language regression, 2019 Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (CIUSSS-NIM) Research Day, Montreal, September 20.
Gagnon, D., Language development; accent: diglossia and bilingualism, 2019 Rivière-des-Prairies Mental Health Hospital Post-INSAR Conference, Montreal, May 27.
Mottron, L., Gagnon, D., Why, when and what to reassess, 2019 Journal club du programme autisme du Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (CIUSSS-NIM), Montreal, February 20.
Poster presentations
Gagnon, D., Zeribi, A., Douard, E., Courchesne, V., Rodríguez-Herreros, B., Jacquemont, S., Huguet, G., Absa Loum, M., & Mottron, L. (2020, 6 février). Distinct speech progression following an early speech regression in autism: A retrospective study on 2047 autistic children [communication par affiche]. 3rd TACC annual conference, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Scientific communication
Gagnon, D. (2019). L’acquisition du langage : un processus distinct. Sur le spectre, 8, 13-14.
