ASD Studies @ Queen’s

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
What the facility does

Social, cognitive, psychological and perceptual development in children with autism and ADHD

Areas of expertise

ASD Studies @ Queen’s uses behavioural observations, eye-tracking experiments, computer-based testing and standardized measures to investigate the effects that early social withdrawal and atypical sensory processing have on later social, psychological and cognitive development in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

Research services

Eye-tracking, behavioural observation

Sectors of application
  • Healthcare and social services
EquipmentFunction
ASL 1000Eye-tracking
Noldus observational system 
  • Autism Speaks
  • National Institutes of Health
  • NeuroDevNet
  • Ontario Brain Institute
  • Masonic Foundation of Ontario