Overview
Speaker: Sophie Higgins
Date: October 29, 2026
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. ET
Language: French
Format: Hybrid (In person and online)
Target Audience: TACC Members and Giant Steps Staff
Note: This activity is eligible for the accumulation of professional development hours for Giant Steps teachers
Speaker
Sophie Higgins is a professor at the School of Psychoeducation at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and an affiliated researcher at the Institut universitaire en déficience intellectuelle et en trouble du spectre de l’autisme. She holds a PhD in psychoeducation, and her research focuses on sexuality education, sexual identity, and gender identity among autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities.
Her work also addresses program evaluation and the development of professional practices, particularly to help practitioners feel better equipped to discuss sexuality. She is beginning a collaboration with the Giant Steps Living Lab to adapt the Connexion Spectrum program for high school students and to pilot new sexuality education tools with youth with intellectual disabilities.