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Sally J. Rogers is professor of MIND Institute and department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She is a scientist working on early diagnosis and interventions methods for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. She is a pioneer in the field of autism treatment and pioneered the development of The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM). She has published nearly two-hundred papers on the field of autism, early diagnosis and treatments.

Early life

Rogers was born in Akron, Ohio in 1948.

Education

Rogers attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine from 1965 to 1967 and Ashland College in Ashland, Ohio, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in June 1969. Rogers then attended The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio to study developmental psychology, earning her Master of Arts in June 1973 and her Doctor of Philosophy in March 1975. During this time, Rogers completed an internship in psychological assessment and treatment from September 1972 to August 1973 at Orient State Institute in Orient, Ohio. Rogers was supervised by Henry Leland.

Research and career

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Rogers acted as staff psychologist and acting director in the psychology department at Orient State Institute from September 1973 to May 1974.

In the 1980s, Rogers began working on the Early Start Denver Model alongside clinical psychologist and autism researcher Geraldine Dawson. The EDSM is representative of applied behavior analysis (ABA), which has faced criticism from some autistic individuals and autism scholars.

In 2022, Rogers received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Autism Research.

References

1. "Sally Rogers: "They learn"-EDSP model". 1 June 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
2. Miriam Falco (October 31, 2012). "Early therapy can change brains of kids with autism". CNN.
3. ^ Daniel Schorn (15 February 2007). "Autism:Latest Weapons Are Early Detection And Treatment". cbsnews.
4. "The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) | What is Autism?/Treatment | Autism Speaks". autismspeaks.org. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
5. Rogers, S. J., and G. Dawson. "Play and Engagement in Early Autism: The Early Start Denver Model. Volume I: The Treatment." (2009)
6. "Is There Science Behind That?: Early Start Denver Model". Association for Science in Autism Treatment. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
7. Schreibman, Laura; Dawson, Geraldine; Stahmer, Aubyn C.; Landa, Rebecca; Rogers, Sally J.; McGee, Gail G.; Kasari, Connie; Ingersoll, Brooke; Kaiser, Ann P.; Bruinsma, Yvonne; McNerney, Erin; Wetherby, Amy; Halladay, Alycia (2015-08-01). "Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: Empirically Validated Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder". Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 45 (8): 2411–2428. doi:10.1007/s10803-015-2407-8. ISSN 1573-3432. PMC 4513196. PMID 25737021.
8. Shyman, Eric (2016-10-01). "The Reinforcement of Ableism: Normality, the Medical Model of Disability, and Humanism in Applied Behavior Analysis and ASD". Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 54 (5): 366–376. doi:10.1352/1934-9556-54.5.366. ISSN 1934-9491.
9. McGill, Owen; Robinson, Anna (2020-10-23). ""Recalling hidden harms": autistic experiences of childhood applied behavioural analysis (ABA)". Advances in Autism. 7 (4): 269–282. doi:10.1108/aia-04-2020-0025. ISSN 2056-3868.
10. Stoll, Laurie Cooper; Egner, Justine (2021-03-09). "We must do better: Ableism and fatphobia in sociology". Sociology Compass. 15 (4). doi:10.1111/soc4.12869. ISSN 1751-9020.
11. "MIND Institute's Sally J. Rogers receives lifetime achievement award for work on autism". UC Davis Health. May 12, 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-18.

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