Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was a young special education teacher one of my high school students was brutally murdered. His name was Justin; I taught ...

At the grocery store, a mother guides her child down the cereal aisle. Nearby, a man studies a list on his phone while a cashier rings up a customer’s order with precision. Amid these ordinary scenes, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – April is autism awareness month, but one local advocate for the autism community believes the recent national spotlight on the “autism epidemic” needs to change. “We need to ...

In the United States, there are around 7.3 million students with disabilities, accounting for 15 percent of the K-12 public school population. Of these, 12 percent have autism spectrum disorder (ASD)- ...

As an influential federal autism committee considers moving to “neutral, strengths-based” language, some advocates are pushing back arguing that stripping words will merely “sanitize” the realities ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The prevalence of autism among 8-year-olds in the United States is one in 36. Rates of autism among Asian, Black ...

At the grocery store, a mother guides her child down the cereal aisle. Nearby, a man studies a list on his phone while a cashier rings up a customer’s order with precision. Amid these ordinary scenes, ...

All four boys have different forms of autism. Their mother argues that a revision to lump together in a single "autism spectrum disorders" category, could make it easier for less severely affected ...

The understanding of autism has come full circle. Back in the 1940s, autism was recognized as a lifelong disability. Then came decades during which many believed that autism was something you could ...