Autism Speaks, Inc.

One day, Bob and Suzanne Wright's grandson Christian was a normal, healthy little boy. Seemingly overnight, however, he slipped into the depths of autism, a disorder that now affects one in 68 children and one in 42 boys. Having no knowledge of autism, the Wrights decided to take action. “We were all hurled into the darkness of autism,” Suzanne said this week. The crux of that fight centered around founding Autism Speaks, an organization that has quickly become North America's largest autism science and advocacy organization