Julia Bascom

[3] She also serves on the boards of Advance CLASS, Inc. and the Centene National Advisory Council on Disability.

[2] Bascom was one of the experts consulted to create an autistic character, Julia, for the children's show Sesame Street.

Loud Hands was designed to be a "transmedia project", that is, one that uses "multiple forms of content--written words, videos, visual art, the internet, and more".

[10] The project was launched in December 2011 as crowdfunding campaign to create an anthology of essays written by autistic people.

[6] The resulting anthology, Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, was described as "groundbreaking" in Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes.