The cognitive and language abilities of minimally-verbal autistic children may currently be greatly under-estimated. My research aims at developing passive tests of language comprehension using neuroimaging, in particular electroencephalography (EEG). I used this technique during my PhD to record the brain’s electrical activity of typically-developing children while they listen to speech, and infer whether they understood the meaning of spoken sentences. I now wish to apply this promising method to minimally-verbal autistic children to learn more about their language abilities.