Digital Reporter, Raphael R. Roker on Waco girl with autism who went missing during severe thunderstorm because she was ...

Dianna Frost allegedly told a girl with level 3 autism “not to come back home” until she found a pet that escaped during a ...

A man was sentenced to 80 years in prison last week after being convicted of deliberate homicide for the 2021 death of his ...

Jaxsynn Gatlin, 4, died as a result of hyperthermia and had a temperature of 102 degrees at the time of his death, said the ...

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services insists he will soon announce the "cause" of autism, but setting a fixed ...

Early-onset neonatal sepsis is associated with increased likelihood of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ADHD.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dr. Allen Frances, about his piece in the New York Times titled, "Autism Rates have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That." ...

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About one-third of the study’s participants had less severe symptoms by the time they entered middle school, according to results published in 2022 in the journal Autism Research. Advertisement ...

As for not using a toilet unassisted, the 2024 study that analyzed 1,368 U.S. children with autism and found that 10.1% were considered “severe” found that 67% of those in the “severe” category had ...

For severe autism families like mine, it goes without saying that a person's worth isn't based on what they can do, and human dignity is never drawn from a resume.

Autism’s expanded definition means a minority of people on the spectrum have the kinds of severe limitations Kennedy cited, though it’s hard to say how many.