Ron Suskind

Founder
The Affinity Project/Sidekicks

Ron Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, lecturer at Harvard Law School, and founder and chief executive officer of The Affinity Project/Sidekicks, a developer of augmentative technologies for ‘at need’ populations, starting with autism.

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Spectrum

Animated sidekick connects parents to children with autism

By Ron Suskind
21 February 2017 | 9 min read

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