Geek Squads

In the 1990s, autism rates skyrocketed throughout the world, more in some regions than others. One hotspot was Silicon Valley in California, home to many large technology companies, leading some researchers to propose that geeks — engineers, scientists and computer programmers — are more likely than others to have a child with autism.The researcher who proposed this provocative idea, Simon Baron-Cohen, is reporting another autism hub in an information technology-rich region in the Netherlands.Read more at...SFARI, June 2011.