Professor Simon Baron-Cohen explains why he believes innovation comes with certain brain patterns and why it’s time to celebrate those who think differently.
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What it’s like being autistic in a neurotypical world
Devon Price talks about his own experience with neurodivergence and delves into the lives of people who feel ignored and invisible.
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What it’s like being autistic in a neurotypical world
Devon Price talks about his own experience with neurodivergence and delves into the lives of people who feel ignored and invisible.
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Your Developmentally Delayed Child Has Finished School — Now What?
Cammie McGovern joins us to discuss “the disability cliff” – when education ends and the hard realities of limited jobs and housing set in – and about her own experience raising a son who has autism.
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What It’s Like To Have Autism From An Autistic Person
Eric Garcia is an autistic journalist, and he joins us to talk about what autism is and isn’t, how it’s portrayed, and the support systems that are currently failing.
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Redefining Autism And Who’s Left Out
Lina Zeldovich joins us to talk about how people who may have autism are not receiving the proper diagnosis.
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Life After High School With Autism
Co-Founder of nonPareil Institute, Gary Moore, and Susan Wood, executive director of Hope Center for Autism, join us to talk about preparing people to thrive as autistic adults.
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A Conversation With Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin joins us to talk about her path to becoming an advocate – and about how we can better understand autistic people we know in our own lives.
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Girls And Autism
This hour, we’ll talk about how about how girls are being better diagnosed and treated for the condition, the subject of a recent report in Scientific American magazine.
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Linking Autism To Child Prodigies
This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility of a genetic connection between children with autism and child prodigies with Joanne Ruthsatz, co-author of “The Prodigy’s Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent.”
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The Theory Of Contagious Mental Disorders
This hour, we’ll talk about current germ theory with Harriet A. Washington, author of “Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We ‘Catch’ Mental Illness.”
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Embracing Neurodiversity
We’ll talk about technological and educational advances that are allowing people with Autism to chart their own path with Wired reporter Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.
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