Hanna Van de Vyver studied Clinical Psychology at Ghent University. She is working as a PhD student on the ‘Belgian Language in Autism Study’ (BeLAS). BeLAS is a longitudinal, national research project in collaboration with the universities of Leuven (KU Leuven) and Brussels (ULB). This project investigates the language development of young children with autism aged between 2 and 6 years. Her research interest is about the socio-communicative abilities of these children, more specifically imitation and joint attention, and how these skills are related to the language development of those children.
