May 2021
An important new article by David Gagnon and several colleagues in the group appeared in
Molecular Autism: Bayonet‑shaped language development in autism with regression: a retrospective
study
May 2021
Rachel Nuwer's Spectrum article highlights the group's work: Finding strengths in autism -
Autism comprises a set of difficulties, but growing evidence suggests that certain abilities also define the
condition.
May 2021
Widening Inborn Constraints for Language Ability: The Case for Autism
A lot of autistic people learn to speak in an atypical manner, for example by favouring non-social learning (though the TV, radio, or books for example) over social learning (verbal exchanges with peers).
This non-social acquisition of language represents a strong argument in favour of nativist models of human language, like Chomsky’s innatism which proposes that mental structures present at birth allow us to acquire linguistic knowledge.
In this preprint article, Dr. Laurent Mottron, Alexia Ostrolenk, and David Gagnon highlight the importance of considering diverse modes of learning as part of human nature and a plural society.
December 2020
Our point of view on the question of diagnosis!
- Autism, the construction of an epidemic, Transcription, OCT-OPUS training
- Reflection on the cliche: Autism is heterogeneous, Fous de Normandie
- The heterogeneity of autism in 2020: nature, or culture? General public conference Strasbourg
