Podcast Episodes featuring Steve Silberman

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301 - Steve Silberman (Author/Science Journalist)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - January 31, 2018 19:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the MIT Technology Review, Nature, Salon, Shambhala Sun, and many other publications. He is the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy o...

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TPP 091: A Conversation With Steve Silberman About His Book “Neurotribes”

TILT Parenting: Raising Differently Wired Kids - January 16, 2018 11:31 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 883 ratings
My guest this week is Steve Silberman, an award-winning science writer who authored the 2015 book NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a brilliant book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and ful...

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2011:A 2016 In-Depth Interview With Steve Silberman

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - June 01, 2017 16:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Steve Silberman discusses his masterful history of autism, Neurotribes.

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Steve Silberman

Private Passions - August 28, 2016 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Steve Silberman is an award-winning investigative reporter based in San Francisco; he writes for The New Yorker, Nature, Wired and Time Magazine. He has spent ten years researching the untold history of autism for his book "Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People ...

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Steve Silberman: Evolving Attitudes Toward Autism

Point of Inquiry - November 17, 2015 18:46 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
  It used to be that autism was considered to be the result of poor parenting, but starting in the 1930s, it was understood to be a hereditary condition, and the behaviors often associated with autism turn out to be present, to one degree or another, in most of us. Though attitudes about autism...

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Steve Silberman: NeuroTribes, The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Underground Wellness Radio - October 22, 2015 23:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 493 ratings
This week, Sean welcomes journalist Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Diversity, to set the record straight about the recent “explosion” of autism diagnoses.     Topics include:   - How Adolf Hitler sent our understanding of autism back 40-50 yea...

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100 Steve Silberman - Remembering Oliver Sacks / The Legacy of Autism

Inquiring Minds - September 04, 2015 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 821 ratings
This week, on our 100th episode, we remember Oliver Sacks, neurologist, author, and mentor to Indre. We talk to Steve Silberman—who was also close with Sacks, about his legacy and influence on, among many other things, Silberman's latest book, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of ...