Dr. Kim Cornish – Cornish Research Team, McGill University

Smiling children are at the heart of everything we do

Welcome to McGill's Child Laboratory for Research & Education in Developmental Disorders

The lab is directed by Professor Kim Cornish, a developmental neuroscientist and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1). The research team is based within the Faculty of Education (Dept. of Educational & Counseling Psychology) with an affiliation to the Faculty of Medicine (Depts. Pediatrics, Neurology & Neurosurgery) and our home is Duggan House (3724 McTavish Street, opposite the Faculty of Education).

We believe it is crucial that research is disseminated to both the scientific and public domains. To this end, we publish in some of the world's most prestigious scientific and medical journals, but also to the community at large via specialists web resources (see our Building Links project) and handbooks written especially for parents, educators, and clinicians that discuss the practical implications of our research findings.

Our Goal

To conduct world-class research that charts the early trajectories of typical and atypical development across the lifespan. Projects include working with children with Fragile X syndrome, autism, language disorders and ADHD. We are also investigating the link between early inhibitory deficits and reading in typically developing children as well as identifying trajectories of visual spatial functions in young children. Using state-of-the-art facilities our goal is to identify cognitive 'signatures' that will help to guide appropriate and timely educational and clinical intervention programs that recognize the unique profiles of infants, children and adolescents with differing developmental disorders.

Our research has been substantially supported by Provincial and Federal agencies in Canada, the U.S., and the United Kingdom:

Canada Research Chairs (CRC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CR), SSHRC, CIHR, FQRSC, Wellcome Trust UK, and NH/Foharty USA, and the National Fragile X Foundation USA.

Also Thank You to all the families who have contributed their time and support during more than a decade of research.