Prof. Nirit Bauminger-Zviely. Full Prof., PhD in Educational Psychology from UCLA, former head of the School of Education at BIU and current head of the graduate studies for autism in the faculty of education, which she also established a decade ago. Over the last two decades, Prof. Bauminger-Zviely developed multidimensional evidenced-based social intervention procedures, and measures to evaluate the autism social phenotype. Prof. Bauminger-Zviely is the author of the book "social and academic abilities in Children with HFASD," and co-author of the book "preschool peer social intervention" , she is also an author of numerous book chapters and journal articles as well as national and international presentations on the field of autism and peer relations, friendship, social intervention, social emotions, social cognition, and motor and motor coordination functioning.