First responders are being trained to search bodies of water first when an autistic child goes ... parents get access to appropriate child care, affordable tracking devices and other support.

McIlwain would like to see autism-specific training taught at police academies and in criminal justice programs. Cook is working to start a foundation in Joshua's name that could help parents get ...

The proposed autism centres in the State will create awareness among the public about early identification, screening, assessment, and intervention to support children with ASD. They will provide ...

However, many children with autism display uniquely enhanced skills; some excel in music, mathematics, or art, not with an ambition to compete but because their brains are wired differently.

Along with the regression of their options for treatment, autistic children in Palestine face the material isolation that comes with living under an occupying force. It's further salt in the wound ...

SINGAPORE – What will happen to my child when I die? This question nags at Ms Sun Meilan, 51, constantly. But the mother of an 18-year-old son with autism has her hands full with daily duties as ...

“How many other children on the autism spectrum are missing the crucial early intervention they need because, during that one appointment, they mask or act differently than they do at home?

What's worse, they add, is hardly anyone outside the autistic community even seems to be talking about it. The result has left kids like Anthony to suffer in silence, with their parents ...

Speaking before a joint session of Congress, he stated there has been an increase in the number of children being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. That's true, per the Centers for ...

Dubai-based UK expat and neurodiversity consultant Uzma Akser never imagined that a household appliance would become the bridge to understanding her autistic ... and children to appreciate what ...

The research is part of a 25-year study tracking kids into adulthood to study the impact on their wellbeing. The next phase is a nationwide survey of some 8,000 children in early adolescence.

Several hundred people have taken part in a protest march in Cork over the lack of sufficient school places for children with additional ... was diagnosed with autism when he was two.