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Statement from MacART on World Autism Day 2025
April 2nd is World Autism Day, a day for recommitting to continued efforts to support inclusion and acceptance for more than 75 million Autistic people across the world. In Canada, 1 in 50 children and youth between ages 1 to 17 are Autistic (PHAC, 2022), which highlights the importance of fostering an inclusive world. The
MacART at McMaster Child Health Research Day – 2025
On March 26, 2025, more than 400 McMaster Health Sciences students, faculty, patients, family members, and special guests gathered at the McMaster University Student Centre to commemorate ongoing research projects. A grand total of 160 research studies were presented at this annual event, spanning a wide range of topics including basic science, autism, climate change
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National Autism Network Launched – a Partnership Between Autism Alliance of Canada and Sinneave Family Foundation
March 21, 2025: MacART is thrilled with the recent announcement of our close collaborators, Autism Alliance of Canada and the Sinneave Family Foundation, being awarded the honour of leading the creation of the non-profit National Autism Network (NAN). The NAN will help inform the implementation of Canada’s National Autism Strategy, and will give Autistic Canadians
About MacART

We are the McMaster Autism Research Team, a group of researchers, clinicians, clinician-scientists, and other experts who foster collaboration among the families, researchers, clinicians, educators, and policymakers whose lives and work are touched by autism.
Our members are leading and participating in a variety of projects with provincial, national, and global impacts, aligning our work with the assessment report on autism released by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2022, which aimed to inform development of a National Autism Strategy.
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