04-15-13: Autism, Nando Parrado, Baseball discrimination




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: After a diagnosis of autism, what’s next for parents and children? We talk to the director of Kennedy Krieger’s ‘Center for Autism and Related Disorders’ and the co-author of a book about raising children on the autism spectrum. Forty years ago, Nando Parrado lived through a plane crash in the Andes, four days lying unconscious, and 11 days walking over mountains to find help. Before his appearance tomorrow at the Baltimore Speakers Series, he tells us what he learned about life by being so close to death. Also today major league baseball honors Jackie Robinson, who joined the Dodgers 66 years ago. Lesser known is a professional team in North Dakota that broke the color line… during the Great Depression. We talk with Marylander Tom Dunkel, who's written a book about the Bismark team.