Amanda Ganzarolli is a Journalist and a Master’s student in Inclusive and Humanitarian Communication at the Methodist University of Sao Paulo, and a member of the research workgroup Humanitarian Journalism and Media Interventions (HumanizaCom). Her research focuses on the study of Venezuelan refugees with disabilities, specifically autism, and the opacity of this underrepresented group in Brazilian media agendas. She is also a Volunteer Director of Public Affairs of the worldwide program Helping Hands in São Paulo for the last 15 years.
Looking at the history of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from the 1930s – when Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner diagnosed Donald Triplett as the first case of autism at age 5 – to the present day, one can understand that there have been great strides in health area since then. According to the CDC (Centers for…
