GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Recent comments about autism made by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are drawing concern from advocates and professionals.
Among them is Maggie Moore, executive director at Hope Network Center for Autism, who has worked in the field for more than 20 years.
Kennedy’s comments, made during an address last Thursday, included a claim that autism is a “preventable disease” and suggested that people with autism may never play baseball, date, or hold jobs…