#121 - Addressing the Disability Advocacy Divide

Disability advocates have made great strides in recent years with headway in inclusion efforts and employment equality. While one segment of the disability community continues the hard work of bringing about needed change and celebrate victories along the way, there is another segment with more significant and debilitating disabilities being agressively silenced. Because policy and research are driven by awarenesses, the silencing of this segment of the disability community has come at the great cost of diminishing programs and supports for those who need them most.

About the Guest:

Jill Escher is an autism research philanthropist, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, immediate past president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area, a housing provider to adults with developmental disabilities