Coronavirus Crisis: NCSA's Feda Almaliti on NPR

Written By Jill Escher, President

THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

'He's Incredibly Confused': Parenting A Child With Autism During The Pandemic

Thank you to NPR’s All Things Considered for speaking with NCSA Vice President Feda Almaliti about how the stresses of the coronavirus crisis on families with severe autism.

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Living with the pandemic has been difficult for everyone: the isolation, the need to wear protective gear like masks and gloves, the adjustment to working or learning from home.

For those living with or caring for someone with severe autism, those challenges can be exponentially more difficult.

"Wearing gloves or masks, you know, things like that? That's just not going to happen here," says Feda Almaliti….. Hear the radio program on NPR 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.

https://www.jillescher.com/
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