Communication Breakdown and the Health Care Gap

To find out more about life for children with autism, Ellen Cohn and Gael Orsmond are handing out cameras and letting the kids show and tell. For Clinical Professor Cohn, it’s all about using daily lived experiences—the things that make us tick, our cultural values and day-to-day routines—to improve the provision of health care.

You can find out more about Cohn’s research, including arming kids with video cameras, on her website. Or you can read in Inside Sargent about how improving doctors’ understanding of daily lived experiences could close our nation’s health care gap.