1 in 54: Autism's Continuing Climb, with Dr. Walter Zahorodny

Written By Jill Escher, President

The latest report from the CDC indicates that 1 in 54 8-year-old children in the U.S. have autism, up from a 1-in-59 prevalence two years earlier, and 175% higher than in 2000. Our webinar features Walter Zahorodny Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who directed the New Jersey autism monitoring site. Moderated by Jill Escher, president, NCSA

View the video recording on the NCSA YouTube channel here.

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.

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