Professor Jacob Burack is a Professor of School Psychology and Human Development in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
He is the founder and director of the McGill Youth Study Team, a research consultant at Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, and a co-investigator on three networks funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research – the Autism Research Training programme, the National Network on Aboriginal Mental Health, and Roots of Resilience (co-funded by the Medical Research Council of New Zealand).
His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada since 1992 and is focused on the development of attention and perception in persons with developmental disorders.
He is a member of the advisory boards of both the Postdoctoral and Merck Doctoral Programme on Research in Mental Retardation at the University of Wisconsin, is the editor of Down Syndrome Quarterly, and is a member of the editorial boards of Development and Psychopathology, the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research and the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
At the community level, he is a provincial government appointed expert on the board of directors of Miriam Home, a public social service agency that services both persons with intellectual disabilities and those with autism, and a member of the board of directors of the Summit School for children with developmental disabilities.
