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About (1): I don't have asthma, but I've had clients seeking Social Security disability benefits who have had it. One client had been born two months premature, with infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), that turned into bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), that he grew out of but still had asthma, compounded by a throat defect that caused him to aspirate fluids. I met him when he was 18 months old (16 developmental age). The throat defect matter aside, prematurely born children tend to have a higher rate of lung problems -- RDS/BPD/asthma. Might it help people like his family if you explained the developmental paths that these lung problems tend to take? Your second audience could be comprised of, say, aspiring pediatricians in medical school? The only downside is that they might have gotten a lot of the same information in their pulmonary medicine coursework.
Just a few thoughts.
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