Coming to terms with an autism diagnosis is a process of healing and recovery. How you feel in the early stages is not how ...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new autism panel is championing a controversial communication method popular among ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — They drove in from Owensboro, Louisville, Lexington and Elizabethtown. They filled a conference room at the ...

Young, media-savvy autistic creators are sharing snippets of their daily lives and explanations of the challenges they ...

Kennedy has responded to outbreaks of measles and whooping cough in the US by pushing disinformation about vaccines.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Indiana is pausing signups for new autism therapy providers, a move state officials say is meant to ...

It’s a dose of disappointment. A supportive care drug that may help ease hyperactivity and improve speech and communication in children with autism has become so popular that desperate parents may ...

The five autism service centers raided by federal law enforcement on Tuesday as part of an apparent series of fraud investigations all utilize money from the same state program that two other ...

As an autistic American, I have seen so much progress for autism acceptance occur in my lifetime. I got to witness autistic individuals finally being elevated to top positions of the neurodiversity ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - One in 31 children in the country has been diagnosed with autism, according to national nonprofit Autism Speaks. That rate is still rising. South Carolina offers help and ...

Note: "This is Me" references the penultimate song in the 2008 Disney Channel movie "Camp Rock," sung by Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas. The song had gotten into my head while working on this piece. The ...

The summer before sixth grade, I was diagnosed with autism. Though it took until I was almost 12 to get that official verdict, my parents had noticed the signs for years. I didn’t start talking until ...