Letters: Jun. 5, 2006

Lifting the Veil on Autism

Equipped with new findings--as well as input from people with autism--researchers are getting a better grasp of autistic minds and how they might best be treated. Impassioned specialists and parents let us know of the challenges in tackling the confounding condition but also revealed a degree of optimism

Congratulations to TIME and Claudia Wallis for the very fine cover story on autism [May 15]. I have been researching and teaching about autism for more than 30 years, and I believe that hers is one of the most accurate and useful articles to appear in the popular...

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