num_pages: 477
description: Going back to the earliest days of autism research and chronicling the brave and lonely journey of autistic people and their families through the decades Silberman provides long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle while mapping out a path for our society toward a more humane world in which people with learning differences and those who love them have access to the resources they need to live happier healthier more secure and more meaningful lives. Along the way he reveals the untold story of Hans Asperger the father of Aspergers syndrome whose little professors were targeted by the darkest social-engineering experiment in human history; exposes the covert campaign by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner to suppress knowledge of the autism spectrum for fifty years; and casts light on the growing movement of neurodiversity activists seeking respect support technological innovation accommodations in the workplace and in education and the right to self-determination for those with cognitive differences.
language: English
title: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
publisher: Avery/Penguin Random House LLC