Document is current

Article History

Accepted: 29 July 2025

First Online: 12 August 2025

Declarations

:

: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.

: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

: Community Involvement : The methodology presented in this article was developed as part of a study designed to provide a better understanding of obstacles to the social participation of autistic youth at school and in the workplace (des Rivières-Pigeon et al., 2023) (…) All authors of this article are mothers of autistic or neurodivergent children. The study was undertaken by the Équipe de recherche pour l’inclusion sociale en autisme (ÉRISA), (…) Quebec’s provincial autism federation (the Fédération québécoise de l’autisme), represented by Executive Director Lili Plourde, and a community workplace integration organization (Action main-d’œuvre), represented by Executive Director Josée Moreau (…) knowledge and experience of two expert advisors: Nadia Lévesque, the mother of two children with autism, and Lucila Guerrero, who is autistic and has an autistic child (…).

: The Institutional Committee for Ethics in Research Involving Human Beings (CIEREH) of the University of Quebec at Montreal approved our research protocol (certificate: 4804_e_2021) on April 6, 2021. Respondents gave written consent before starting the focus groups.

: Likewise, members of our own team had used the platform for another project (Poulin et al., 2024).

: (…) ethics committee at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

: Des Rivières-Pigeon, C., Malboeuf, V., Prefontaine I., Auclair, A., Doucet-Larivière, É., Ferland, É. Et Gonthier, S. (2023). Participation sociale des adolescent-e-s et jeunes adultes autistes en milieux scolaires et d’emploi: Analyser les obstacles pour concevoir des services permettant de les surmonter. Rapport final de recherche. Office des personnes handicapées du Québec, 252 p. Poulin, M.-H., des Rivières-Pigeon, C. et al. (2024). Être des alliés pour favoriser l’inclusion sociale des autistes. Vers une pratique psychoéducative collaborative. Béliveau, collection Psychoéducation: fondements et pratiques.