June 10, 2008 - USA TODAY - Ausitm will get personal attention starting June 24 in a story line on NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives. It will be based on the experiences of the series' head writer, Dena Higley, who, with her husband, Mark, has an autistic child. In the summer arc, Dr. Lexie Carver (Renee Jones) and Commissioner Abe Carver (James Reynolds) are told their 3-year-old son, Theo, has autism. The Higleys' son Connor, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, is now 19 and recently graduated from high school.