Share & Care #3: Preventing and Managing Severe Autism Behaviors at Home

Written By Jill Escher, President

Many autism families are facing tremendous hardship during the coronavirus crisis. This interactive online forum focused on strategies for families living with challenging behaviors, such as aggression, property destruction, pica, and self-injury. Featuring Matthew Siegel, MD, Maine Behavioral Healthcare, Gloria Satriale, Ed.D, JD, BSL, ACRE, Preparing Adolescents & Adults for Life, PA. Moderated by Jill Escher and Amy Lutz, NCSA.

Watch the video recording on the NCSA YouTube channel here.

Links (under construction):

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Parents’ Medication Guide, AACAP

NCSA Share & Care Webinar #2 on Activities at Home

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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