Board of Advisors
Ed Asner & Cindy Asner Actor / Activist / Parent Dr. Tony Attwood Author / Lecturer / Founder, Autism Today Margaret Bauman, M.D. Pediatric Neurologist, Mass General Hospital Yudi Bennett Foothill Autism Alliance / Power Pack / Parent Gary & Teddi Cole Actor / Parent Diane Danis, M.D. Developmental Pediatrician Tom Fields-Meyer Associate Editor PEOPLE Magazine / Parent Barbara Firestone, Ph.D. President and CEO The HELP GROUP Deborah Flaschen President / Co-founder Floortime Foundation BJ Freeman, Ph.D. Professor, NPI UCLA School of Medicine Nadine Geher, Esq. & Thomas Geher, Esq. Attorneys / Advocates / Parent Jim Gott Former Los Angeles Dodger / Parent Temple Grandin, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Animal Science at Colo. St. Univ. Adult with Autism Stanley Greenspan, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry- Behavioral Sciences Pediatrics- George Washington University Medical School- Practicing child psychiatrist Audrey Griesbach, M.D. Developmental Pediatrician Bruce Hensel, M.D. NBC Los Angeles Medical Corespndant Sharon Hensel-Cohen, M.F.C.C., SLP Speech and Language Pathologist Kathy Holliman, M.A., C.E.T. Education Spectrum Co-founder Portia Iversen and Jon Shestack Founders, Cure Autism Now Foundation - C.A.N.. Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D. Clinical Director, Koegel Autism Center, UCSB Author, "Overcoming Autism" and "Pivotal Response Treaments Claire LaZebnik Co-Author, "Overcoming Autism" - Parent Eric London & Karen London Founders, Nat'l Alliance for Autism Research - N.A.A.R. Ivar Lovaas, Ph.D. Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention - "L.I.F.E." Ann Mastergeorge, Ph.D. The Mind Institute, UC Davis Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. Director, Autism Research Institute Ricki Robinson, M.D., M.P.H. Pediatrician Rick Rollens Parent and Advocate Sue Rubin College Student, Writer, Advocate and Adult with Autism Jack Scott California State Senator Johnny Seitz Author - Life Coach - Adult with Autism Stephen Shore, A.B.D. Author, Exec. Dir., Adult with Autism Spectrum Difference Jackie Speier California State Senator William Stillman Author, Presenter, Adult with Asperger's Syndrome Joey Travolta Travolta Family Films, Entertainment Experience Bill Urquhart, Esq. & Mary Urquhart Attorney / Developer / Parent Valerie Vanaman, Esq. Attorney / Advocate Lori Waldinger, M.A. Advocate Ivor Weiner, Ph.D. Asst. Prof. Special Ed. CSUN Donna Williams Author / Advocate / Artist and Adult with Autism Pat Wilson, D.D.S. Parent / Advocate / Founder, Autism Tutors. Nancy D. Wiseman President / Founder, First Signs, Inc.
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