The Origins of Autism

In 1990, Robert F. Kennedy's Uncle Ted helped pass the American's with Disabilities Act. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was a reauthorization of what was then called the Education for Handy-Capped Children Act. A concurrent report said that the system has suffered from an historically and accurate identification with mental illness. And so what does that mean? What it means is that now autism is included as a covered disability.