In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

Today we’re beginning our liberal arts segment with our presentation, In a Different Key: The Story of Autism Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction in 2017, In a Different Key: The Story of Autism, tells the story of the first child ever to receive the diagnosis. That child is still alive. Two award-winning journalists will tell his extraordinary story while they unpack the history of this often misunderstood condition and the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. “Spellbinding“ (Washington Post), “remarkable” (Wall Street Journal), “vivid” (New York Times). This panel features John Donvan, co-author of “In a Different Key: The Story of Autism” Newscaster for ABC News and Host and Moderator for Intelligence2 Debates, and Caren Zucker, co-author of “In a Different Key: The Story of Autism” journalist and producer for ABC and PBS. Find more information at: Videos of the presentations and discussions can be found at our YouTube Channel:

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In a Different Key: The Story of Autism is an episode from KentPresents by Samuel Cournoyer.

This episode is 44:06 long.

This episode was published on Dec 27, 2018.

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