Beneath it all, the documentary "The Horse Boy" is a standard father-son story -- just with horses added. And autism. And a mounted tour of the wilds of Mongolia. OK, it's really not that standard at ...

When British author Rupert Isaacson discovers his autistic son Rowan has a remarkable connection with horses, Dad exhibits a dangerous mix of moxie and imagination. His impulse isn't to find an ...

Can hope and love overcome incredulity and the difficulties of reality? The new film "The Horse Boy" tries to answer this question as it documents a family's journey to Mongolia to find a cure for its ...

Roughly one out of every ninety children are born with autism. Approximately one percent of children in the United States, between the ages of 3 and 17, have an autism spectrum disorder. Between 1-1.5 ...

The first thing you learn about autism in Michel Orion Scott's documentary "The Horse Boy" is how the condition defies precise definition. Beyond a general agreement among experts that its origins are ...

You’ve got to love a woman who is willing to do anything to help her child, including washing out her vagina with vodka and being whipped by shaman. Oh, and then there’s that bit about being kicked by ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Each person with autism is different within the spectrum of diagnosis and helping them cope can be challenging. One method to help kids connect with the world is to simply ...

In this intense, polished account, the Austin, Tex., parents of an autistic boy trek to the Mongolian steppes to consult shamans in a last-ditch effort to alter his unraveling behavior. Author ...

The Horse Boy, a father-and-son story with a scenic backdrop, follows a Texas couple who take their autistic son on a horseback trip to Outer Mongolia seeking some kind of peace for their child. The ...