No two children on the autism spectrum are alike, but one common challenge many of them face is difficulty with sleep.

BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas — A Brazoria County mother is demanding justice after shocking surveillance video from her 5-year-old son’s elementary school shows a teacher forcefully slamming him to the ...

When Robyn Kistemaker’s son, Lucas, was in preschool, his teacher recommended screening him for autism after noticing certain behaviors, such as running away from the class or tearing up paper and tos ...

Witnesses say the suspect, Christopher Allen, repeatedly slammed the child’s face into a shopping cart before an off-duty ...

Elizabeth McLain wasn’t diagnosed with autism until she was in her 20s, and it only happened then because she had been an ...

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A Norfolk man is speaking out after he said his 6-year-old autistic daughter was able to wander from Crossroads School earlier this week. The parent of the child said this ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Marion County jury has found a special education teacher at Hayes Elementary School guilty of assaulting a student. During the trial, prosecutors showed a video of the incident ...

As a chemistry professor, Holden Thorp owned one of the most thrilling rises in academia the Triangle has witnessed: winning a $500,000 research grant at age 27; heading up the Morehead Planetarium at ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Chesterfield County Police Department has arrested the mother of a 28-year-old man with autism who died in an incident they have deemed a “suspicious death.” ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...