• PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 9, 2016

    PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 9, 2016

    Aug 10, 2016 12:05 AM EST

    Tuesday on the NewsHour, Republican Sen. Susan Collins steps up to say she will not vote for Donald Trump. Also: Turkey and Russia meet amid strained relations with the U.S., giving adults with autism the tools to build a life, an assistant principal lives a day in the life ...

  • First-generation college attendees test out campus life

    First-generation college attendees test out campus life

    Jul 28, 2016 07:05 PM EST

    ... feeling that she'll be abandoning her family responsibilities when she goes away to college. She helps take care of her older sister, who has autism. She makes sure her baby sister is dressed and her younger brother gets off to school. Who will do those things when she goes ...

  • The surprising, painful ways companies are using noncompete agreements

    The surprising, painful ways companies are using noncompete agreements

    Jul 14, 2016 11:31 PM EST

    ... the drinks, honey? DUARTE GERALDINO: Omar and Damaris Said are foster parents, licensed by Florida to care for special-needs children. OMAR SAID: They have autism, bipolar, intellectual disability. DAMARIS SAID: Some of them have all three. A lot of times, the children who have these behaviors are in institutions ...

  • Congress, Obama find accord on regulation of household chemicals

    Congress, Obama find accord on regulation of household chemicals

    Jun 22, 2016 11:10 PM EST

    ... feel like this was something that was a long time coming, that these are dangerous chemicals that are unregulated and could explain things like, oh, autism or cancer. We don't know if they do, but the question is, no one is investigating. Now the EPA can investigate. So that ...

  • Why so many Americans in the middle class have no savings

    Why so many Americans in the middle class have no savings

    Jun 02, 2016 12:29 AM EST

    ... and that expense. If anybody tells you that they're sailing through, they're lying. BRIAN BRUNJES, Butcher: Everybody struggles. I have a child with autism. He was diagnosed 20 years ago. My wife had to stop working. Became a one-income family. We accumulated a lot of outside expenses ...

  • Here's why states want to make it tough to skip childhood vaccines

    Here's why states want to make it tough to skip childhood vaccines

    May 25, 2016 12:39 PM EST

    ... to decide whether their kids can be vaccinated. Many parents worry that vaccines cause illness and permanent disabilities, she said, although links between vaccines and autism have been discredited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And, Fisher said, eliminating exemptions would mean that unvaccinated children in many states ...

  • One former bank executive's quest to make the workforce more 'neurodiverse'

    One former bank executive's quest to make the workforce more 'neurodiverse'

    May 19, 2016 09:05 PM EST

    ... to Harvard looking to scale and fine-tune a program to get businesses to hire more more "neurodiverse" employees -- that is, people with Asperger's, autism, dyslexia, post-traumatic stress disorder, Tourette's -- people whose brains are "wired differently," she says. The following conversation has been edited for clarity and ...

  • A dad learns to 'Love That Boy' when son diagnosed with Asperger's
  • The shocking experience of finally seeing the full spectrum of emotion

    The shocking experience of finally seeing the full spectrum of emotion

    Apr 27, 2016 11:33 PM EST

    A medical procedure used to diagnose damage from brain injuries may also help some autistic patients make connections and understand emotions they’ve never experienced. Author John Robison underwent that experimental therapy, detailed in a new memoir, “Switched On.” Hari Sreenivasan talks with Robison about his experience.

  • To improve lifelong health, Memphis tries rooting out childhood trauma

    To improve lifelong health, Memphis tries rooting out childhood trauma

    Apr 20, 2016 11:37 PM EST

    Childhood trauma such as abuse, neighborhood violence or the death of a parent has been found to lead to dire health and social problems later in life. How can communities intervene to spare future generations the same pain and illness? Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports in collaboration with Kaiser Health News on how the city...