Downtown Rotary meeting - 19 March 2019

Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland

Weekly meeting – Tuesday 19/03/2019

Professor Sally Rogers

Downtown Rotary Visiting Scholar

What should we be doing for young children with ASD? Options and evidence

Professor Sally Rogers is a developmental psychologist, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of Training and Mentoring at the MIND Institute (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) at the University of California, Davis.

Her current research focuses on developing effective interventions for infants and toddlers with autism that families and professionals can deliver. She is also a clinician, providing evaluation, treatment, and consultation to infants, children, and adults with autism and their families. The early intervention model that she developed with Geri Dawson and other colleagues – the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) – is internationally known and was recognised by Time.com and the Autism Speaks advocacy organisation as one of the 10 main medical breakthroughs of 2012 and its materials have been translated into 15 languages.

Professor Rogers will present a historical overview of autism spectrum disorder leading up to modern-day advances including the ESDM. She will also discuss the relevance of international research to the New Zealand context.

Introducer/host: Graham Hendry

Thanker: Dr Bill Daniels

Reception: Dan Turkel, Bryan Coyte, Frankie Crellin

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