Advocates claim it has the power to unlock the hidden intelligence of profoundly autistic people. The results are unstudied.

At 18 years old, these North Texas twins with autism are able to communicate through a technique called the Rapid Prompting Method.

His mother, 45-year-old Soma Mukhopadhyay, is considered a pioneer in a breakthrough treatment for some autistic children who face the stigma of being considered "mentally retarded." That was a label ...