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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