Sally J. Rogers PhD

Dr. Rogers specializes in conducting developmental and treatment research into autism and other developmental disorders and working with children with developmental disabilities and their families, especially young children with autism. She studies early developmental processes, including imitation, social-communicative behavior, development of motor skills, language, and social interaction patterns. She is currently focused on developing and improving treatments for early autism using a treatment model that she developed in collaboration with Geraldine Dawson, the Early Start Denver Model.

Her efforts to deliver effective interventions to people with autism and their families takes her to places all over the globe to train therapists to use ESDM in 1:1 treatment, to coach families to embed ESDM techniques into everyday life with their child, to help other researchers study effects of ESDM delivered in varied cultures, and to teach others how to use ESDM with young children and families.