Nick has autism, a very severe autism.

Autism creates itself.

If you know one person with autism, you only know one person with autism.

And for them, autism was devastating.

Your child has high functioning autism.

Asperger, which is just mild autism?

And we just can't afford that missed opportunity, because children with autism become adults with autism.

So this is our view of autism.

What are the children with autism doing?

Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said,

So my journey in autism really started when I lived in a residential unit for adults with autism.

And the idea is not to cure autism.

I am here tonight to talk about autism.

Now, if you want to understand autism, animals.

So the first disease he looked at is autism.

People with autism are different from us, that's true.

I believe we need to rethink the autism spectrum.

I say how autism is a spectrum of behaviors.

And I am that child on the autism spectrum.

That's a hallmark symptom or diagnostic symptom of autism.

There are millions of individuals with autism all around us.

So, these are a few ways autism can affect people.

In 2009, 1 in 91 people were diagnosed with autism.

Perhaps, people could even watch movies about people with autism,

The clinical implication, it comes from the domain of autism.

Visual integration has been associated with autism by several researchers.

Let's flip the tables now and consider Autism Spectrum Disorders.

You know, the thing is, autism comes in different degrees.

There are over a hundred genes that are associated with autism.

Contrast this with a child with autism playing the same game.

And it is the same for children on the autism spectrum.

Well let's take a look at something like autism incidence per thousand.

Well, autism is the most strongly genetic condition of all developmental disorders.

We now know that there is a very broad spectrum of autism.

Learning about autism could be done in a classroom or at home.

We always think about autism as something that happens later on in life.

Well, this is a 15 month old little girl, and she has autism.

In this scan pass, in green here, are two year olds with autism.

Now, so, our autism study is just beginning. We got three million dollars.

I'm specifically interested in things like autism, and cerebral palsy, these great childhood catastrophes.

There are great things being done there, treating now autism, dementia and other conditions.

The first of these two, when meeting an autistic person, put his autism second.

And, second of all, we should teach our children about autism early in life.

One in 88 children in USA are diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum.

My 12 year old son has autism and has had a terrible time with math.