Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I would like to add that our program helps establish a before, a during and an after. It makes it possible to build a life plan. Our program is not intended exclusively for autism or ASDs. We're working with the general population. Therefore, we deal with intellectual disability, trisomy, Tourette's syndrome and mental health.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  We would like to have a study with much more data. We conducted a study with a 10-person group. Although the study is documented, there is supporting video footage and it is done under supervision, we would really like to have a study with 100, 200 or 300 people. As for the budgets, we have submitted an application to the Department of Education and the Department of Health.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  They go to school and participate in the program.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  No, it's a treatment that was designed as part of a concept project 10 years ago. We provide services and, at this time, all the support comes from autistic children's friends and parents, and from collaborators. We're not funded by the provincial or the federal governments. Five years ago, we succeeded in obtaining research funding from the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec, which assessed the program and ruled it eligible for funding.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Research needs to be done on training because it draws on everything related to interpersonal emotion. Not just anyone can necessarily take part in an artistic, cultural and creative workshop, be filmed and want to enter into a relationship simply for the sake of it. This approach is not part of current training, not at the college level or at the university level.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I'll wrap up quickly. We want to do research so that our program is better equipped and so that our interventions are more specific. Thank you.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I would like to say something about services for adults. Our program was created in Rouyn-Noranda, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, with the mission of developing services for adults. In Quebec, no programs are available for people over the age of 21. There isn't really a place that works on their readjustment or social integration.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  We are trying to find a solution to the integration difficulties any person living with this type of problem has. It involves incorporating all the possible models into society, schools and community associations so that society becomes a stakeholder in this development. But our teams on the ground have observed that the communication interfaces between the various school, community and institutional environments are practically non-existent.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  No, I'm not a doctor; I don't take care of people like that. Instead, the treatment has an interpersonal and social integration focus. I think that this goes back to what the professor said earlier, that we need to change the way we think and live. Social status is not important in our workshops.