After leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about ...

This is the book that ended my career,” says Rachel Rooney, holding a copy of My Body is Me, a picture book for three to ...

A 25 per cent improvement in social abilities and reduced anxiety – those are the newly published results driving researchers to seek federal funding for a larger trial of CBD oil in autistic children ...

When James Hunt began posting about his boys online, it was a way to describe the emotions and experiences of their extraordinary lives. In sharing his family’s joy and struggles, he realised they wer ...

Epistemic injustice is the assumption that people, usually those with less power, are unable to correctly understand their ...

Dame Uta Frith, who pioneered research that underpins autism, warned the expansion of the label to include people who suffer from conditions such as anxiety has brought the framework to 'collapse'.

Play takes all sorts of forms, changing from family to family. But one thing stays the same: its importance in your little one’s development. Autistic children often have a specific way of playing and ...

A Deltona man faces a maximum of life in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of sexually abusing an autistic child, the Volusia Sheriff's Office stated in a Facebook post on Thursday, March 5 ...

Dr Travis LaCroix, in our Department of Philosophy, challenges a long-standing misconception about autism: that autistic people are inherently unable to understand others’ thoughts or feelings. Here ...

For individuals with autism and their families, navigating social situations, especially new or unpredictable ones, can be ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A therapist accused of abusing an autistic, nonverbal child during a therapy session made his first appearance in court Saturday. That's where a Palm Beach County ...

UPDATE — 2/28/26 at 2:30 p.m. ET: Nearly two months after he was beaten nearly to death by his mother’s boyfriend, a Florida boy has died, according to reports. Mason, the 6-year-old son of Cynthia ...