To what extent should the word "neurotypical" be inserted after "to" and before "human"?
Also, "irrespective" is perhaps an infelicitous choice of words. Or maybe all too appropriate, depending.
That is perhaps better answered by someone who actually has autism, but I would be highly surprised if "neurotypical" were not excessively narrow.
I suppose the sentence could be rewritten as "other cognitive abilities notwithstanding" or something to that effect, but that would hardly make the sentence read better. Given that the sentence is descriptive, not normative (I've never actually participated in any discussion of the issue prior to this one -- I'm trying to narrow the inferential distance between the two camps in this debate), I don't see why it would be taken as disrespectful.
I ran across this article that I think is interesting. It suggests that type 2 diabetes and the increase in autism may have a common link
http://www.frontiersin.org/Cellular_Endocrinology/10.3389/fendo.2011.00054/full