Sally J. Rogers

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Sally J. Rogers
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Ohio State University, Ashland University, Colby College
Known for Autism & Early Start Denver Model
Scientific career
Fields Behavioral scientist, Autism
Institutions University of California, Davis
Website http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/ourteam/faculty/rogers.html

Sally J. Rogers is a professor affiliated with the MIND Institute and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. [1] [2] [3] She is a scientist whose work is focused on the early diagnosis and treatment of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. She is a pioneer in the field of autism treatment [3] and co-developed the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM). [4] [5] She has published nearly 200 papers on the early diagnosis and treatment of autism.[ citation needed ]

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Early life

Rogers was born in Akron, Ohio in 1948.[ citation needed ]

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.[ citation needed ]

Research and career

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 ESDM alongside clinical psychologist and autism researcher Geraldine Dawson. [6] The ESDM is a form of applied behavior analysis, [7] a behaviorist intervention commonly marketed as an autism treatment that has been criticized by some autistic individuals and autism scholars. [8] [9] [10]

In 2022, Rogers received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Autism Research. [11] [ better source needed ]

References

  1. "Sally Rogers: "They learn"-EDSP model". 1 June 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2016.[ dead link ]
  2. Miriam Falco (October 31, 2012). "Early therapy can change brains of kids with autism". CNN.
  3. 1 2 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.