Autism Speaks Official Blog 

Members of Congress and Americans with autism are getting to know each other a little better every day on Capitol Hill.

Through an innovative program launched four years ago by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), interns with developmental disabilities have been placed in Congressional offices to perform staff work while rubbing elbows with the nation's top elected officials. In the process, they are helping change attitudes among key decisionmakers about what people with developmental disabilities can do in the workplace.

This is a guest blog post from Kevin Murray, the Winged Foot Celebrity Golf Challenge co-chair.

With his son at the 2012 event.

15 years ago a celebrity golf event was our first step of many towards finding answers to the many debilitating aspects of autism. Why have so many suffered and continue to? What can we do to help now and for tomorrow? Where are our governments in

This post is by Michael McWatters and was originally posted on the Huffington Post, as 'What I Know About Fatherhood Now That I Have A Son On The Autism Spectrum,' here.

When I learned we were going to have twins, I knew my journey as a father would be a little different. As if to prove the point, our boys arrived ten weeks early and spent over two months in NICU. While there, Martin developed a protein allergy that caused a

Posted by Dan Smith, PhD, Autism Speaks senior director for discovery science

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that simply isolating a human gene does not give an individual, company or organization the right to patent its use. This is a ruling that most researchers and clinicians welcome.

The crux for us is that prior to this ruling, companies held exclusive rights to many genes