Webinar: Accessing Educational Services During the Covid-19 Crisis

Written By Jill Escher, President

This interactive online event discussed remote instruction, federal and state guidance, issues surrounding FAPE and compensatory education and advocacy going forward. Featuring attorneys Denise Dimson Rekem and Judith Weinstock of Parles Rekem LLP. Moderated by Lisa McCauley Parles, NCSA board member.

Watch the recording on the NCSA YouTube channel here.

See the slides

Link to resources for home instruction mentioned by Lisa: linktr.ee/UMNSUCARD

Questions? 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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