From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.

A cat you train with clicker training and what you've got to do is pair the click with a food reward. And he's doing the stuff because you get a food reward. Once you can do it all after a lot training with no food reward.