The Latest Breaking News from Autism

Women are more likely to be diagnosed autistic later in life, impacting their motherhood journey - the sensory demands of being a parent can also affect their maternal well-being.

Children with more prenatal fluoride exposure experienced issues such as emotional reactivity, somatic complaints including headaches and stomachaches, anxiety, and symptoms linked to autism.

Boys are diagnosed with ADHD at a 3-to-1 ratio compared to girls. Boys are 4 times likelier to be diagnosed with autism and twice as likely with dyslexia

When the term “social model of disability” was coined by British sociologist Mike Oliver in 1983, it helped form the basis of the disability rights movement.

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He's now got 10 regular pooches on the books.

The boy, who has autism and Down syndrome, was photographed in the restraint for a social media post, his guardian says

Lauren Child brings a light touch to big issues, Elle McNicoll explores autism – and a secret society is at work in Paris’s sewers

Almost a million Australian schoolchildren now have a disability – that’s one in four enrolments. Parents, teachers and advocates say education is at crisis point

Lawsuit filed by student with autism against school district for negligence after violent incident.

Littleton, Colorado, police have arrested Kiarra Jones on charges of third-degree assault for crimes against an at-risk juvenile. Video captured Jones, a paraprofessional with Littleton Public Schools, slapping a 10-year-old boy with autism in the face, stomping his feet, and elbowing him in the stomach as they rode a school…