December was a dark month. On the 16th, 22-year-old Luke Renner jumped from a cruise ship because he wanted to go swimming. On December 26th, 28-year-old Robert Nicholson was found frozen, two weeks ...

In 2021, a Lancet commission report on the future of autism research and care introduced the term “profound autism” for ...

Composer William Barnett started his YouTube channel as an outlet for his music -- but today he also uses it to debunk the ...

I don’t begrudge Bill Gates’s musings that he would have been put on the autism spectrum if he were a child today. Yet as a parent of a young adult who is nonverbal with severe autism, I’d like to ...

Look past the widespread outrage over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent remarks about autism, and you will see that many of us whose lives are shaped by the most severe form of the disorder found ...

Last November, I was scrolling mindlessly through my Facebook feed when I saw a post that snapped me to attention. It was a picture of an 18-year-old man named Sam who had just voted—which shouldn’t ...

Her autism diagnosis should mean access to specialized programs tailored to her needs. Instead, we've found ourselves turned ...

ALTOONA, Iowa — The Shur family is now without their son, 6-year-old Elliot, who had autism, after he drowned in a pond at Enabling Garden in Altoona on Tuesday. Last year, 82 children with autism ...

The Supreme Court has been asked to revisit a previous ruling it made on what it means to be deprived of liberty.

The U.S. Justice Department will now cover the cost of GPS tracking devices for children with severe autism and other similar conditions, New York Senator Charles Schumer announced Wednesday. Schumer ...