While some people feel moments of loneliness or social anxiety from time to time, investigative reporter Christina Buttons ...

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

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Many of the behaviors manifested by people with autism are the same behaviors officers are trained to perceive as suspicious. As Alice Smith's son Jamie approached his teen years, it dawned on her the ...

Families say ABA has been life-changing. But a surge in Medicaid spending — and questions about who's collecting it — has drawn scrutiny.

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

The Autism Center has announced plans to open another facility in an effort to better serve children with autism in the ...

Dr. Rebecca Thompson, president of the Illinois Providers for Applied Behavior Analysis Access and Quality, said an amendment ...

The education department offered more money for specialists serving autistic students on the neighbor islands. Four years ...

Massachusetts’ Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC), the focus of a 2007 Mother Jones investigation, remains the only ...