A Stage for Children with Autism

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- In 1996, Elaine Hall traveled to an orphanage in Siberia to adopt her son Neal. Soon after, the boy was diagnosed with autism, and she began a difficult but determined course to reach her nonverbal child, now 16. A children’s acting coach, she founded the Miracle Project in Los Angeles, a theater and film program for children of all abilities, and other advocacy efforts, and is the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary, "Autism: The Musical." She was in New York last month on a speaking tour in connection with her memoir, "Now I See the Moon: A Mother, a Son, a Miracle" (Harper).