On the Spectrum

Studio 360

Jonathan Mitchell is a writer in Los Angeles. He’s written a novel about his life experience with Asperger’s syndrome, an autism-spectrum disorder. Independent producer Tamar Brott met Mitchell in a writing class a few years ago.

And Kurt begins his conversation with researcher Blythe Corbett, of the U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Institute in Sacramento, a center dedicated to autism research.

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