Share Your Story

Written By Jill Escher, President

NCSA wants to hear from you.

Please share with us your story and concerns, and also your ideas about how to improve the lives and prospects for all those affected by severe forms of autism and related disorders. Topics may include, for example:

• Housing and long-term supports
• Education and training
• Day programs and employment
• Medical care and therapeutics
• Behavioral crisis and crisis care
• Financial issues
• Autism research
• Individual, parent and family well-being

Your information will help inform NCSA’s efforts, and will be kept confidential. If follow-up information is needed, we will contact you. Thank you for your generous assistance and time.

Jill Escher, President

Jill Escher is president of the National Council on Severe Autism and the mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism. Through the Escher Fund for Autism she promotes and funds research on the genetic toxicology of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, and she has served on the governing council of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society, where she co-chairs its Germ Cell and Heritable Effects special interest group. She was president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2019 and, through her family business, Claradon Properties, provides housing to adults with developmental disabilities in the Bay Area. See more of her work at jillescher.com.

https://www.jillescher.com/
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