Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, refers to a neurodevelopmental difference with which about 1% of the world’s population (World Health Organization, 2023) and 2.2% of US adults are diagnosed (Centers ...

The goal is for the course to eventually branch out to include educating faculty and staff, security guards, law enforcement, ...

A crisis is unfolding in children and young people’s community and mental health services, according to the Children's Commissioner. In the foreword to her report into waiting times for assessment and ...

Autism therapy centers offer services like applied behavior analysis (ABA), in which positive reinforcement is used to help ...

Autism occurs equally in people of different races, ethnicities, and income levels, but autism services are not distributed equally, according to research. As a group, children who are Black, Hispanic ...

Many of the autistic adult clients who come to my organization for coaching didn’t know they were autistic until their 20s, 30s, 40s or even later. For most of them, learning they are autistic later ...

Private equity investors appeared more likely to enter states with a higher autism prevalence and more generous state autism ...

For people without autism or intellectual disability, 12% of hospitalizations were for mental health conditions. Researchers found that after discharge from the hospitalization, almost 1 in 5 autistic ...

The Autism Foundation of Oklahoma is establishing an endowment fund to sustain its ongoing support for individuals with ...