As autism diagnoses continue to grow and remain a topic of nationwide debate, new research reveals that autistic individuals are facing mental health challenges at a major turning point in their lives ...

Every child has the right to an education under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet, for many autistic students in Canada, ...

According to a new study led by researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, autistic college students face dramatically higher rates of anxiety and depression compared to their ...

A new study published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools explores how elementary school–aged peers can be taught to support classmates with autism who are minimally speaking. The ...

Special education in public schools was tenuous even before the Trump administration cut staff at an office that administers funding.

Vanessa Fong receives funding as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Michael Smith Health Research BC, and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research ...

An increasing number of young Australians are autistic. About 4.4% of children aged to 10 to 14 years and 3.4% of older teens have an autism diagnosis. While research shows including autistic students ...

MOHEGAN LAKE, N.Y., Aug. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At Shrub Oak International School and The Pines at Shrub Oak, education for autistic students takes many shapes—inside classrooms, across campus, and ...

Learning is an Autistic Joy of my life. But school was painful. Painful. Painful. This heartbreak is shared by so many neurodivergent people. Now, a groundbreaking study involving over 700 adolescents ...

The stabbing suspect is described as a former student at Switzer Learning Center in Torrance, according to police.

A J.C. Nalle Elementary teaching aide allegedly covered her finger with hot sauce, put it in a nonverbal autistic child’s ...