It’s incredibly rewarding providing a space where families can celebrate the holidays feeling understood, supported,

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a type of therapy that can be used to treat a variety of ...

Individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities are at higher risk of self-injury, aggression and other severe behaviors, but families are often unable to access effective treatments. A new guide for clinicians is designed to change that.

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 have detached their own retinas or smashed their heads ...

FARGO, N.D. — When a 13-year-old Minnesota boy was banned from church after parishioners complained about his behavior, it exposed a painful truth so politically incorrect that some people feel guilty just saying it out loud: Some autistic children can ...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes he would have been diagnosed as autistic if he were a child today. Gates made the revelation in an interview to promote his forthcoming book, Source Code: My Beginnings. In a video interview with the ...

New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

Private equity investors appeared more likely to enter states with a higher autism prevalence and more generous state autism insurance mandates, they wrote in JAMA Pediatrics. States in the highest tertile of autism prevalence were 24% more likely than others to have clinics owned by private equity investors ( P <0.01).