First responders are being trained to search bodies of water first when an autistic child goes missing. New policies, like Kentucky's "Ian Alert" and a proposed "Joshua Alert" in Ohio, aim to improve ...

For the past four years, the budget for autism services within the P.E.I. department of education and early learning has been roughly $1.4 million, with half of that — $713,400, ...

The number of Americans diagnosed with autism jumped 175% between 2011 and 2022 thanks to a surge in new cases among young adults, new research finds. A developmental disorder, autism affects how ...

Seven-year-old Mar’Dasia Forte, a child with autism, drowned in a West Chester retention pond less than a year after a similar death. Her mother and local advocates are urging state and local ...

More than 200,000 people are now waiting for an autism assessment in England, with some having been on the list for years, alarming NHS data show. Autism charities said it was unacceptable that the ...