My 25-year-old non-verbal, severely autistic child, fuco:, happened to start creating art 10 years ago. Since becoming a ...

In September, I published excerpts from Facebook posts by parents describing the tremendous impairments and challenges of their severely autistic children. By no means am I the only one engaged in ...

Like most four-and-a-half-year-olds, Lev Bielski loves playing with his big sister, spelling his favorite pastime “pool” on the letter board, and cuddling with his parents on movie nights. But it’s ...

A large study of Chinese children finds that autistic children with auditory atypicalities show an exaggerated brain response ...

Krystina McQueen’s severely autistic foster son – who is prone to biting and hitting — has made big strides in his few weeks ...

Soon after immigration officials arrested him along with his wife and kids at the U.S. border and dropped them off at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, Aleksei began counting ...

UPDATE — 2/28/26 at 2:30 p.m. ET: Nearly two months after he was beaten nearly to death by his mother's boyfriend, a Florida boy has died, according to reports. Mason, the 6-year-old son of Cynthia ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may offer a viable treatment strategy for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who display severe self-injurious behavior. In a first-in-human pilot trial of ...

For years, a non-verbal child at Mwalimu Junior School in Mityana was repeatedly sent out of the classroom because his teachers did not understand his condition. While his twin brother could speak and ...