Autism Advocate, Dilshad D. Ali, Shares Resources That Serve People with Disabilities in the American Muslim Communities.
Dilshad D. Ali has worked in the realm of autism advocacy for years, currently serving on the Advisory Board for Muslims Understanding and Helping Special Education Needs (Muhsen) and in the past as the Chair of the Advisory Board for EnabledMuslim, affiliated with American Muslim Health Professionals. She is serving her last year on the Virginia’s Autism Advisory Council and advocated for the passage of an autism health insurance bill free of age caps, which came to fruition this past legislative year.
In 2015, in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act, she was honored as a White House Champion of Change for her writing on autism, faith and family in Muslim communities on her blog, The Muslimah Next Door. Ali has worked as a journalist and editor covering Muslims in America for nearly two decades and is the blog editor at Haute Hijab, the leading global hijab company where she leads a team of writers in covering all news, issues and stories pertaining to Muslim women. She is mom to three great kids, the eldest of whom is autistic – nonverbal, but certainly not non-communicative.
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