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Dr. Katie Herron from the Early Childhood Center talks with Adria Nassim about her perspective on disability as it relates to early childhood.

Adria Nassim received a Batchelor of Arts in English and a minor in Spanish from Brescia University, a small Catholic liberal arts university in Owensboro, Kentucky in 2010. She is a research assistant (RA) at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. Adria was diagnosed with multiple disabilities at birth and during childhood including cerebral palsy, a learning disability and an autism spectrum disorder in her mid-teen years. As part of her role at the Institute, she writes for the Indiana Resource Center for Autism's monthly newsletter where she shares her personal experiences of life with autism. She also gives guest lectures to college students around the Indiana University campus in which she discusses autism from both a clinical as well as a personal perspective. She writes a quarterly column on autism and developmental disability for Bloomington's Bloom Magazine, which was previously published in The Herald-Times, Bloomington's city newspaper, every other week for the past 5 years. When she is not working, she enjoys swimming, reading, and spending time with her service dog Thomas.