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About Portia Iversen. Welcome to my website. I’ve had several different chapters in my life including being an artist, a writer, working in the entertainment field, and being an autism advocate and lay scientist.
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After serial careers in a wide range of areas, (see autism...
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“Faced with the challenging contradiction of great poetic...
- Autism
Autism Research & Advocacy related Biosketch. Download...
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Portia Elizabeth Iversen grew up in Illinois where she was an art student, she moved to Los Angeles in her twenties and worked in the art department for movies and television and won an Emmy Award for the Tracey Ullman Show. Subsequently she started Cure Autism Now in response to the autism diagnosis of her son Dov.
- Los Angeles, California US
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Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism is a 2007 autobiography by Portia Iversen. It follows the development of her second son, who started expressing autistic characteristics around age two.
After serial careers in a wide range of areas, (see autism advocacy and scientific research, set-decorating, writing for TV and writing), I had an epiphany that I was in a better situation today, to pursue making a living from my creative artistic side, than I’d been post-college graduation, many years earlier.
“Faced with the challenging contradiction of great poetic gifts in a severely nonverbal autistic boy, Portia Iversen embarked on a passionate odyssey through science and scientists to unlock this ‘Rosetta stone of autism’ and to understand her own son, which led her to reframe autism as a profound mistiming of the senses.
Sep 28, 2023 · In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Cure Autism Now cofounder Portia Iversen described the “intact mind” she believed was buried within even the most cognitively impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov. But the sentiment itself was not new.
Portia Iversen - Designer, Writer, Autism Advocate - Portiaelizabeth.com | LinkedIn. Designer, Artist, Writer, Autism Advocate. Los Angeles, California, United States. 789 followers 500+...
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