Communication and Inclusion

Casey L. Woodfield, Clinical Research Associate

Casey Woodfield’s academic, professional, and personal interests are grounded in commitments to inclusion and communication as interrelated imperatives. Her research focuses on development and training of dynamic communication supports, inclusive educational practice, and the lived experiences of individuals with disabilities, particularly autism, who use augmentative and alternative communication. In addition to establishing reliable and sustainable support systems for communication and inclusion, her work aims to counter the socially constructed notions of competence and voice by privileging the perspectives of individuals with disabilities as critical agents of advocacy and change.

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Casey L. Woodfield
Clinical Research Associate

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Casey L. Woodfield
Clinical Research Associate
Communication and Inclusion
Program on Supports
5521 Research Park Drive, First Floor
Catonsville, MD 21228
443.860.2580
cwoodfield@hussmanautism.org

“The soul must be loved as it is.”

Jamie Burke
“Autism awareness can’t stop with a list of what makes people with autism different from us. Because what is essential is the constant awareness of what makes us the same.”

John P. Hussman, Ph.D., Director
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“We agree with the view that presuming competence is the least dangerous assumption.”

John P. Hussman, Ph.D., Director
“Autism is not disability.”

Jamie Burke
“We are just like you, with the same desires, and just need help to be typical members of society.”

Sue Rubin
“In the end, the best argument for inclusion is the simplest. It’s the one we know by heart – that all of us are created equal.”

John P. Hussman, Ph.D., Director