Amy S.F. Lutz

Amy S.F. Lutz
Born
United States
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania BA, PhD
Indiana University Bloomington MA
OccupationsProcessor, historian of medicine, writer, parent-advocate
Websiteamysflutz.com

Amy S.F. Lutz is an American historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2018 she has been the vice-president of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA) and founding member. She writes about autism topics, often using her son Jonah as an example of life with high support needs. Lutz is the author of three books, Chasing the Intact Mind (2023), We Walk: Life with Severe Autism (2020), and Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children (2014). She publishes in various publications, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, Washington Post, Slate and others.