Full Spectrum

September 8, 2016

Jeff Hagan ’86

poster with the text "Oberlin"

Writer Steve Silberman’s book NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, published last year and released in paperback in August 2016, challenged a lot of orthodoxy around autism—how it’s perceived and how it’s treated. Widely discussed and well-reviewed in the media, the book won the Samuel Johnson prize for nonfiction and the California Book Award’s silver medal for nonfiction. Full Story

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