The first time my youngest son headbanged, he was about 3 years old. He flung his head back so hard, I heard it thud from the other room. I panicked — rushed to him, felt the back of his head for a ...

An assault charge filed against a 5-year-old Sumner County boy with autism by his classmate's parent is still moving forward. The boy was charged after violent outbursts at school, according to ...

Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of the Kennedy family and aunt of RFK Jr., was lobotomized in 1941. Born with a lack of oxygen at birth, she experienced developmental disabilities, seizures, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. The ...

Diagnosed with autism at 14 months, Aubreigh Osborne started this year struggling to control outbursts and sometimes hurting ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville family was back in Frankfort on Wednesday to share their experience moving their autistic son to Kansas to receive the care he couldn’t get here at home. Frankie ...

Family life can be tough when Mom is narcissistic and the son is on the spectrum. Source: (c) Bialasiewicz/fotosearch Many readers have responded with strongly ...

In a busy Washington, D.C. classroom, a student rocks gently in his chair, hands over his ears. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the media company who has been ...

Reese Applegate is one of seven Kentucky kids with severe autism living at a facility in Kansas, receiving lifesaving care Kentucky doesn't offer.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Chicopee Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing man who is verbally autistic. The Chicopee Police Department states that on Saturday, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. The ...