CDS Seminar Series : Professor Maria Cristina Triguero Veloz Teixeira | Challenges and Possibilities of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder in Brazil: An Overview

This seminar is free to attend and is open to all, both within and outside the University. If you wish to attend in person or via Zoom, please register your interest to attend via the Zoom portal using the link above. Zoom details will be shared prior to the event via email.

We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Developmental Science will welcome Professor Maria Cristina Triguero Veloz Teixeira, Research Productivity Fellow at CNPq/PQ-1C and full Professor in Psychology, at Mackenzie Presbyterian University to present a hybrid CDS Seminar, taking place on Tuesday 10th of October, 13:30-14:30.

You are welcome to attend either in person at 52 Pritchatts Road Lecture Theatre 1, Room G16, or online via Zoom. If you wish to attend, please register your interest to attend either in person or online via the Zoom portal using the link above. 

Prof Triguero Veloz Teixeiracan be contacted on mariacristina.teixeira@mackenzie.br

There will be the opportunity for an informal discussion after the seminar itself.

To arrange a 1:1 meeting with the speaker, please contact a.darby@bham.ac.uk. 

CDS Event Host - Dr Sophie Sowden

Challenges and Possibilities of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder in Brazil: An Overview

Abstract

In Brazil, the diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is late in some regions of the country. There is a lack of standardized national programs for the monitoring of children's mental health and failures in training and clinical practice of paediatricians to detect developmental delays and signs of ASD. The shortage of specialized public services for ASD diagnosis, the lack of specific funding for autism research as well as well-trained investigators/clinicians and mental health services for autistic adults: these are some of the main shortcomings for autism research in Brazilian context.   Starting with an overview about the Brazilian education and mental health system the presentation will discuss some initiatives of the Mackenzie Research Center for Childhood and Adolescence to overcome the challenges for research on ASD. We also prospect possibilities to develop cross-cultural studies in autism. 

Speaker Biography

Prof. Maria Cristina Triguero Veloz Teixeira/ CNPq/1C/ Permanent Federal Research Fellowship http://lattes.cnpq.br/1500695593391363

Full Professor in Psychology.

Researcher at the Mackenzie Research Center for Childhood and Adolescence of Mackenzie Presbyterian University and professor of Graduate Program in Developmental Disorders 

https://www.mackenzie.br/en/graduate-programs/master-and-doctoral/developmental-disorders

Research interests: assessment and intervention of mental health and adaptive functioning in autism, ADHD and intellectual disability, mental health in autism across lifespan, rare syndromes and intellectual disability, special education, cross- cultural studies in autism.

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=26536583400

This seminar is free to attend and is open to all, both within and outside the University. If you wish to attend in person or via Zoom, please register your interest to attend via the Zoom portal using the link above. Zoom details will be shared prior to the event via email.