Since 2013, the program has readied young adults on the spectrum for careers in visual effects, video editing, and animation. Of the 46 graduates so far, eight have been placed in full-time jobs ...

So when “Sesame Street” producers came knocking on the doors of Exceptional Minds in Burbank to animate a new special, the studio’s animation ... are on the autism spectrum?

who is on the autism spectrum, a scholarship to its summer animation program. “I am interested in a job in animation, or in IT,” Lowry wrote in the viral letter to his potential future employer.