Dr. James Bebko is a Registered Psychologist with a long-standing commitment to the fields of autism and developmental disabilities, as well as deafness, having worked with children, adolescents and families for more than 25 years. He is Professor and former Director of the Clinical-Developmental Psychology Programme at the Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada. He has been a Visiting Professor at Universities in Japan, France and the United States. Dr. Bebko has published research articles in some of the major research journals in autism, child development, deafness, and language disorders, and has been an invited speaker at a variety of regional and international conferences. He has been a consulting psychologist to many community agencies serving children with autism and developmental disabilities, as well as providing diagnostic, assessment, and consultation services directly to families.

" Intermodal processing in young children with autism Memory strategies and metamemory awareness in autism, Iconic memory and stimulus discrimination in autism, Control of the acquisition of information in developmentally disordered children, Evaluating language competence and cognitive processes in the profoundly deaf, Evaluation of treatment programmes for children and adolescents with autism"