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Portia Iversen

Portia Iversen
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Portia Iversen

Portia Iversen, an Emmy-winning art director (for The Tracey Ullman Show), has been a vigorous proponent of autism research since her son Dov was diagnosed with the condition in 1994. Together with her husband, Jon Shestack, she established the Cure Autism Now Foundation (CAN), one of the largest nongovernmental funding resources for autism research worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

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Autism Now: Dr. Martha Herbert Extended Interview
PBS, April 20, 2011
...looked like they were totally out of it, indicating that they were recording and observing. The book by Portia Iversen, "Strange Son," a really remarkable book about her son and about Tito Mukhopadhyay, who is a very high-functioning but nonverbal person...
Free Book (Kindle) - How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?
Books on The Knob, July 17, 2011
...back, how sounds become colors, how beauty fills his mind and heart. With this work, Tito — whom Portia Iversen, co-founder of Cure Autism Now, has described as “a window into autism such as the world has never seen” — gives the world a beacon of...