Thank you, autism community, for your outpouring of support

Dear Autism Community,

When we launched the National Council on Severe Autism last week we were almost immediately inundated with notes and emails of support from across the country. Thank you for your immense kindness and gracious outpouring of encouragement. We are humbled by your votes of confidence and frustration with the status quo, and inspired by the beautiful and sometimes harrowing stories you shared.

Many asked how you could help. Here are a few simple ways:

  1. Please sign up for updates at our homepage

  2. Please follow us on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ncsautism/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCSAutismOrg

  3. Please consider submitting a post for our blog to info@ncsautism.org.

As we further develop our education and advocacy agenda we will alert families and practitioners to targeted opportunities to facilitate progress. Together, we are changing the national conversation about autism.

On behalf of the NCSA board of directors, we humbly thank you,

Jill Escher, President
Feda Almaliti, Vice President

info@ncsautism.org

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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