A Podcast Is Born: Welcome to Autism Confidential

Written By Jill Escher, President

NCSA has launched Autism Confidential, a podcast that shines a light on the hottest issues in the world of autism, including topics often shunned by conventional media. Who cares for autistic adults after their parents die? How can we fix our broken care system? What interventions help, or hurt? Join hosts Jill Escher, Amy Lutz and others from NCSA as they take on the hardest questions of autism with leading thinkers and doers.

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Episode 1 - Introducing ... Autism Confidential!

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Autism Confidential is the new podcast sponsored by the National Council on Severe Autism. We focus on the topics of importance to those impacted by severe autism, including policy, research, treatment and services.
Highlights from this episode:
• Autism Confidential is a community effort, hosted by leaders from NCSA. Your introductory hosts are Jill Escher, president, and Amy Lutz, vice president
• We will focus on topics that are under-represented and ignored in autism media
• We will tackle difficult issues with honesty, and also connect with those outside our community
• Have ideas for episodes or speakers? Please email us at info@ncsautism.org
• Interested in becoming a sponsor? Please email us at 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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