Your local PBS station powers PBS News and keeps it free and accessible for everyone in your community.
... Brain Power: What do you see on screen? MATTHEW KRIEGER, 8 Years Old: Mom. APRIL BROWN: Eight-year-old Matthew Krieger has been diagnosed with autism. LAURA KRIEGER, Matthew's mother: A lot of the trouble he gets into with other kids is, he thinks he's funny and doesn ...
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 ...
... 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 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Even a small number of unvaccinated people can undermine the immunity of the larger population, which is leading public health officials and vaccine advocates to push for changes.
Former bank executive Lynne Wines came 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.
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.
Support Provided By: Learn more
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.