Portrait of Petrus de Vries

Petrus de Vries

Founding director
Centre for Autism Research in Africa, University of Cape Town

Petrus de Vries is founding director of the Centre for Autism Research in Africa (CARA) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and current president of the International Society for Autism Research.

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