In the New York State Legislature, debate around the adoption of a communication bill of rights for people with severe ...

Last year, Health Secretary Kennedy thrust autism into the national spotlight, calling it an epidemic and vowing to ...

A young Long Island man who overcame autism to graduate high school as valedictorian is now poised to graduate from Hofstra ...

An Edmonton-area family is using a global positioning system device to track a severely autistic son and keep him safe. Gail and Gordon Wyatt's son Ian, 17, has wandered away from the family home in ...

A California man with severe autism, whose family was told he would never understand language, has just published his first book. Woody Brown was diagnosed with autism when he was a toddler. Doctors ...

CORRECTION: A previous version of this post stated incorrectly that the teacher leading one of Conrad high’s autism units, Aimee Kelly, had been fired for alleged misconduct toward a student. She has ...

Imagine going through life knowing you experience the world differently than the average person, but not knowing why. Perhaps you don’t understand why loud noises, such as balloons popping, are ...

I recently clarified how the neurodiversity paradigm can help amplify the voices of those classified as “severely” autistic. That was partly in response to the oft-repeated (but ultimately misguided) ...