Peer-reviewed journal articles (7)

  1. 1. Dumont, C., Belenger, M., Destrebecqz, A., & Kissine, M. (2025). Exploring Unexpected Bilingualism in Autism: Enhanced Sensitivity to Non‐Adjacent Dependencies. Developmental science, 28(4). doi:10.1111/desc.70026
  2. 2. Belenger, M., Dumont, C., Geelhand, P., & Kissine, M. (2025). Investigating sex differences in narrative production of autistic pre-adolescents and adolescents. Research in Autism, 124, 202589. doi:10.1016/j.reia.2025.202589
  3. 3. Dumont, C., Belenger, M., Destrebecqz, A., & Kissine, M. (2025). Exploring Unexpected Bilingualism in Autism: Enhanced Sensitivity to Non-Adjacent Dependencies. Developmental science, 28(4).
  4. 4. Dumont, C., Belenger, M., Eigsti, I.-M., & Kissine, M. (2024). Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism. Autism Research, 17(9), 1844-1852. doi:10.1002/aur.3221
  5. 5. Keating, C. T., Hickman, L., Geelhand, P., Takahashi, T., Leung, J., Monk, R., Schuster, B., Rybicki, A., Girolamo, T. M., Clin, E., Papastamou, F., Belenger, M., Eigsti, I.-M., Cook, J. L., Kosaka, H., Osu, R., Okamoto, Y., & Carvalho, S. S. (2024). Cross-cultural variation in experiences of acceptance, camouflaging and mental health difficulties in autism: A registered report. PloS one, 19(3 March), e0299824. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0299824
  6. 6. Geelhand, P., Papastamou, F., Belenger, M., Clin, E., Hickman, L., Keating, C. T., & Sowden, S. (2023). Autism-Related Language Preferences of French-Speaking Autistic Adults: An Online Survey. Autism in Adulthood. doi:10.1089/aut.2022.0056
  7. 7. Keating, C. T., Hickman, L., Geelhand, P., Takahashi, T., Leung, J., Schuster, B., Rybicki, A., Girolamo, T. M., Clin, E., Papastamou, F., Belenger, M., Eigsti, I.-M., Cook, J. L., Kosaka, H., Osu, R., Okamoto, Y., & Sowden, S. (2021). Global perspectives on autism acceptance, camouflaging behaviours and mental health in autism spectrum disorder: A registered report protocol. PloS one, 16(12), e0261774. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0261774
  8.   Theses and master's dissertations (1)

  9. 1. Belenger, M. (2026). "Pragmatic advantage" in autistic females, who are we really talking about?: Exploring narrative coherence, pause patterns, discourse markers, and caregivers reports of pragmatic abilities in diagnosed autistic females and females at increased likelihood of autism (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication - Langues, lettres et traductologie, Bruxelles.