8:30 – 9:00 

Welcome / Registration

9:00 – 10:00 

Stephanie Durrleman

Bilingualism and Cognition in Autism: What Interaction Teaches Us — and What Comes Next

10:00 - 11:00

Mila Vulchanova

I learned French, but then unlearned it when my TV channel subscription was cancelled: Pathways to acquiring language in non-interactive ways

David Gagnon

Active Language Development During the Autistic Developmental Plateau

Lunch break with

Poster session

Natalia Meir

Naturalistic and Non-Interactive Bilingualism in Autism: Evidence Across the Spectrum from Minimal Speech to Fluent Language

Laurent Mottron

A perception-language chimera: integrating language into the Enhanced Perceptual Functioning model

Screening of Hugo

documentary film by Kamilla Kvarntorp

Nine-year-old Hugo has never spoken Swedish, although his parents, teachers, classmates, and everyone else around him do. English is Hugo’s language; it has been ever since he began speaking at the age of four. In the film, we follow Hugo over the course of a year, sharing both his joys and his challenges.