NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks this month on autism.

On Saturday, April 26, a proclamation was signed declaring April as Autism Awareness Month in the City of Bolivar.

A statement that denies the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is compiling an autism registry, but says instead ...