Tabatha Southey: Lisa MacLeod and Doug Ford are are in the running for most offensive take on children with autism. Call it a draw?
Tag Archives: autism
Why understanding the biology of our minds could cure autism and schizophrenia
Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel says brain imaging shows talk therapy can change brain biology—and even fight depression
The most autism-friendly town in Canada
How two women transformed their tiny Newfoundland community from a zero-resources town to the best place in the country to raise kids on the spectrum
David Mitchell on translating—and learning from—Naoki Higashida
The author of ‘Cloud Atlas’ and ‘The Bone Clocks’ credits the autistic Higashida with helping him understand his own boy
The passions and possibilities of autism
A pair of tender new documentaries highlight how people with autism are so much more than society’s misconceptions, ascending into wizardry or falling into tragedy
Steve Silberman on autism and ‘neurodiversity’
A Q&A with an author about neurodiversity: the radically humane idea that people process the world in different ways, and there’s nothing wrong with that
Jacob Barnett, boy genius
Diagnosed with severe autism as a child, Barnett is now 15 and one of the world’s most promising physicists
The making of a child prodigy
Paul Wells on the next chapter in the amazing story of Jacob Barnett
The tough slog of autism awareness
Woman tells her neighbour to euthanize her autistic grandson
A miracle cure, not for the squeamish
Are fecal transplants the next treatment for heart disease, Crohn’s and even autism?