A Father Leaves His Career to Help the Autistic Enter Workforce

A Father Leaves His Career to Help the Autistic Enter Workforce
Danny Combs with two of his children. Courtesy of Danny Combs
Andrew Thomas
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Danny Combs is a Grammy Award-winning guitarist, and played professionally for a decade. Despite his successful career, his role as a father trumped music once he noticed his son was displaying signs of autism.

When Combs’s son was 2 years old, he started to show emotional expressions, language development, and social development consistent with autism. The family was living in Nashville, Tennessee, at the time and took their son to Vanderbilt University where he underwent a variety of tests.