Alison Singer's days became a blur eight years ago when her daughter Jodie, now nearly 11, was diagnosed with autism. Singer left the workforce temporarily and focused on her daughter.

Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being diagnosed with autism at higher rates and researchers say that has to do in part with a better understanding of the ...

Atypical sensory-based behaviors are a ubiquitous feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). In this article, we review the neural underpinnings of sensory processing in autism by reviewing the ...

No one blew whistles.All the students in the class at the Small Fish Big Fish swim school had autism, a developmental disorder linked to a higher-than-average danger of drowning.It has long ...

No one blew whistles.All the students in the class at the Small Fish Big Fish swim school had autism, a developmental disorder linked to a higher-than-average danger of drowning.It has long worried ...

Kennedy Jr. over his promise to find the causes of autism by September, which he promptly recanted in favor of a new goal. But as soon as Collins asked him about it, Kennedy doubled his timeline ...

The Kelly Autism Program at WKU has created the Circle of Support, a program that offers six areas of assistance specifically designed to address the challenges faced by students with Autism Spectrum ...

ConneXtion, sponsored by Milestones Autism Resources, is June 10 & 11 at John Carroll University. Milestones provides support and coaching for families and professionals to help autistic people ...

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A Clarks Summit couple failed to supervise their nonverbal son who has autism following multiple instances where he was found running around the borough and neighboring Clarks Green, borough ...

A new school is set to be built to cater for children with specific needs, in a win-win for the Port Macquarie-Hastings community.