Congregate Living and COVID-19 Why study the impact of COVID-19 within congregate livings settings?” Congregate living settings supporting individuals with neurodevelopmental intellectual and developmental disabilities experienced unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. To address these challenges, several studies focused on…
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Campus Belonging Project
Campus Belonging Project What is the Campus Belonging Project? In collaboration with the University of Alberta (U of A) and McMaster University (CanChild), the Campus Belonging project was developed to enhance autistic postsecondary (PS) students’ sense of belonging within Canadian…
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Job-Train Program
Job-Train Program What is the Job-Train Program (JTP)? The Job-Train Program (JTP) is a summer vocational program developed through community-based research and designed to provide training and early paid-work experience for autistic high school students. The JTP offers employment related…
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Autism Workforce Capacity Project
Autism Workforce Capacity Project – Service Innovation Stream What is the Workforce Capacity Project? The Workforce Capacity Project is a collaborative project between the McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) Autism Program, CanChild and several academic programs training the next generation of health care…
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Tecla-e
Tecla-e Do you or your child use a switch to communicate or interact with your environment? Consider participating in a research study evaluating a wireless interface for environmental and smart-device control. What is this study about? We are collaborating with…
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BEST SIBS
Home » Current Studies BEST SIBS Current ProgressSibYAC MembersSibling ResourcesPublications and PresentationsBlogsSibYAC ActivitiesSiblings TEAKit BrothErs and Sisters involvement in health care TranSition for youth wIth Brain-based disabilitieS (BEST SIBS) Study As children with disabilities grow up and become adults, they…
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F-words implementation and evaluation
Implementation and Evaluation of the F-words for Child Development at an Organizational Level Exploring the effectiveness of tailored implementation strategies to support the adoption and penetration of the F-words for Child Development at an organizational level:A pilot hybrid type III…
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Let’s Talk About Sex
Let’s Talk About Sex The purpose of this pilot study is to translate the Dutch educational Board game “SeCZ TaLK” into English, validate its use across cultures, and evaluate how useful it is and how it is used by youth…
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Autism Classification System of Functioning
Development of the Autism Classification System of Functioning: Social Communication Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a huge challenge in the field of childhood neurodevelopmental disability. The wide ‘spectrum’ of these conditions means that people’s functional capacities and limitations vary enormously. A challenge in…
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