Cecilia Montiel-Nava is director of the Behavior and Child Development Lab and associate professor of psychological science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas.
Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean struggle to collect data on autism, but Cecilia Montiel-Nava and the Latin American Autism Spectrum Network are beginning to change that.
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Filling autism knowledge gaps in Latin America: Q&A with Cecilia Montiel-Nava
Filling autism knowledge gaps in Latin America: Q&A with Cecilia Montiel-Nava
Cecilia Montiel-Nava
Associate professor
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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