A new NYPD sketch depicts the 11-year-old autistic boy reported missing from his Brooklyn apartment – and whose mother has ...

A local immigrant rights group is stepping in to help a Houston mother after her 15-year-old autistic son, who had been ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The family of a disabled man in the state’s care says the agency responsible for his ...

The Trump administration announced on Monday, Sept. 22, that it had found the "answer to autism" – a claim that's evoked strong reactions from across the political spectrum. Health and Human Services ...

Cuyahoga County prosecutors on Wednesday charged a 10-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy with attempted murder and rape in the brutal attack of an autistic girl last month. Prosecutors also accused ...

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.

A quick-thinking deputy and a brave big brother helped save a missing 5-year-old nonverbal girl who wandered into a Florida ...

Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus ...

Claire Button, 36, killed her five-year-old son Lincoln and left a note that said "he does not fit in the world and where he ...