Nashville native, Grace Walker Goad was diagnosed with moderately severe autism with intellectual disAbilities and severe speech/language disorder at just under the age of three, and has been painting since she was four years old. Her advanced use of color and composition has been featured on the 2007 autism episode of ABC's "The View", on the cover of the American Journal of Psychiatry, the cover of the book, "Making Sense of Autism", as well as numerous newspapers, magazines and online media. Her work is in the private collections of a number of notable individuals and can be found online at www.GraceGoad.com