Researchers, clinicians and disability rights advocates are dismayed by RFK Jr.'s new autism study. Many view it as a big ...

The Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office voluntary Autism and Special Needs Registry aims to better serve those people and ...

Michael VanPelt spent several weeks recently glued to his telephone, dialing doctors who might be able to get his 3-year-old ...

RFK Jr’s focus on autism sparks fear among autistic people, who say they are being dehumanized and seen as not valued members ...

Autism, an umbrella term for a spectrum of developmental disorders that can look vastly different from one person to the next, was already a deeply stigmatizing condition for people like Tyler Bunty.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly referred to autism as an “epidemic” over the past few weeks, a ...

Cumberland County is poised to launch an autism, special needs and dementia voluntary registry. Here's how it would work.