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Formal photo of Jenny Mai Phan, a Vietnamese American woman with long straight black hair with light highlights.

Talking with Asian American autistic autism researcher Jenny Mai Phan

July 5, 2022 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Jenny Mai Phan is an Asian American autistic autism researcher, an Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) member, and the mother of four children, two of whom are autistic.

IMFAR 2012: Autism – Friendships in Adolescence

May 18, 2012 • By Jen Myers

Beautiful Toronto is a lovely setting for the explosion of information at IMFAR 2012. One way we are trying to bring the conference to those of you who could not attend is by using Twitter to “live tweet” sessions and events. Later, using Storify, we can piece back together those 140-character bites of information. The

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