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Amaël Arguel is a lecturer at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, based in the Cognition, Languages, Language and Ergonomics Laboratory (CLLE, UMR 5263). His research interests include cognitive processes in complex learning environments, information for human learning, cognitive ergonomics of multimedia interfaces, the role of emotions in learning and decision-making situations, learning analytics, medical informatics, and online patient support.
Émilie Boujut is a Professor of Health Psychology at CY Cergy Paris Université and head of the CHArt-CY laboratory. She is also an associate member of the LPPS, where she conducted her research between 2008 and 2023. Her research focuses on the educational inclusion of disabled students, coping with stress, and burnout in the context of work, school, family and illness.
Jonathan Bluteau is a Professor in the Department of Specialized Education and Training at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). His areas of expertise include school architecture and design, school well-being, stress biomarkers, program evaluation, mental health in schools, mental health and evolutionary theories, and anxiety-depressive disorders in young people.
Céline Clément is a Professor at the University of Strasbourg’s Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Éducation et de la Communication. Her research interests include the inclusion of autistic children in mainstream schools, validation of parenting skills training programs for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, school environment design, and classroom management.
Cyrielle Derguy is a Senior Lecturer at Université Paris Cité and is based in the Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et de Processus de Santé (LPPS, UR4057). Her research interests include the study of protective and vulnerability factors in parental adjustment to neurodevelopmental disorders (particularly ASD and ADD/ADHD), the development and evaluation of support systems (therapeutic education, parenting skills programs) for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD, ADD/ADHD), and the study of stigmatization in autism spectrum disorders and its impact on inclusion.
Johanna Despax is a research engineer at the Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé (LPPS) at Université Paris Cité. Her areas of expertise include studying the future of people who have experienced a break in their childhood bond (adoption, placement), studying atypical parenthood (adoption, placement, disabled child), quality of life and adjustment of relatives of people with ASD or ADHD, and the quality of life and adjustment of people with cancer and their relatives.
Carmen Dionne is a Professor in the Department of Psychoeducation and Social Work at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Canada). Her research focuses on early childhood, inclusive early intervention, and intervention evaluation.
Marie-Michèle Dufour is Assistant Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal’s School of Psychoeducation (Canada). Her research interests include autism, intellectual disability, positive approaches, mental health in the workplace, anxiety disorders, the biology of stress, behavioral interventions, applied behavior analysis, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Caroline Huron is a psychiatrist and researcher in cognitive sciences at INSERM. Her research focuses on developmental coordination disorders (dyspraxia) and inclusive education.
Marie-Aimée Lamarche is a lecturer in the Department of Administration and Foundations of Education at the Université de Montréal (Canada). Her research interests include the evaluation of interventions and tools, intervention programs, learning difficulties, teaching and learning in informal contexts, and measurement in education.
Kristopher Lamore is a researcher at the University of Lille’s Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALAB, UMR 9193), holding the research chair in psycho-oncology and intervention research. His research focuses on cancer, coping, couples, intervention, quality of life, family, and supportive care.
Nicolas Meylan is Associate Professor at the Haute École Pédagogique Vaud, Switzerland. His research focuses on health promotion and prevention in schools, school psychopathology, and child and adolescent development psychology.
Laurent Mottron is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addictology at the University of Montreal (Canada). His research focuses on how persons with autism process information. He studies the mechanisms of perception, memory, and reasoning by which autistic persons perceive the world, to characterize the cognitive deficits and hyperfunctions of autism and their anatomical and functional basis.
Nathalie Nader-Grosbois is a Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Her research interests include intellectual disability, self-regulation, autism, theory of mind, self-esteem, and resilience.
David Panzoli is a lecturer at the University of Toulouse’s INU Jean-François Champollion. His research focuses on interaction in immersive environments, virtual reality, and serious games.
Marie-Hélène Plumet is a Senior Lecturer at Université Paris Cité’s Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et de Processus de Santé (LPPS UR4057). Her research focuses on typical and atypical development (ASD and other neurodevelopmental disorders), communication and theory of mind, executive functions, longitudinal monitoring of developmental trajectories in autistic children, and inclusive educational systems.
Nathalie Poirier is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). Her research interests include behavioral and cognitive interventions, yoga interventions, family and school environments, quality of life, and autism.
Aline Veyre is an Associate Professor at the Haute École de Travail Social et de la Santé in Lausanne (Switzerland) (HETSL). She is in charge of a Research Unit for and by people affected by Autism (URA). Most of her projects are conducted from a participatory and applied perspective. Her research interests and themes focus mainly on supporting adults with intellectual development disorders or autism spectrum disorders, including the development and evaluation of support systems, quality of life and social participation, and communication and social policies.
Sabine Zorn is a Senior Lecturer at the Institut National Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche pour l’Éducation Inclusive (INSEI) within the “Groupe de recherche sur le handicap, l’accessibilité, les pratiques éducatives et scolaires” (Grhapes). She is associated with the “Interactions & Formation” research team at the University of Geneva. Her research focuses on inclusive education from early childhood to adulthood, particularly for people with autism and multiple disabilities, and the analysis of social interactions and the viewpoints of those involved in educational contexts (from nursery school to university and in medical-social establishments).