Gibson Elementary School celebrated Autism Awareness Week in November with a series of activities designed to foster understanding, knowledge and acceptance of students with autism. The initiative was ...

Growing up, I was always taught to be inclusive to everyone, especially my classmates who I would see every day. My godbrother has autism, and being inclusive has always been important to me because I ...

At RISE, a transition program within Shrewsbury Public Schools, education goes beyond the classroom and into the real world. Designed for young adults with disabilities, the program emphasizes ...

In my new book, The Politics of Autism, I discuss how special education is failing children with autism; not because we are not trying—we are. We are spending about 2.25 times as much per special ...

My son is autistic and receives therapy at an autism center Monday through Friday. But some neurodiversity advocates (including some self-advocates) claim that autism doesn’t need treatment because ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) remains one of the least understood neurodevelopmental conditions in India. While awareness is growing, many schools still struggle with early identification, inclusive ...

When U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently called autism an “individual tragedy” and “catastrophic for our country,” saying that many on the autism spectrum would ...

Coreen often arrives smiling and eager to our 10th-grade criminal-justice classroom in our rural high school. But when content moves too fast or there is a need for background knowledge she's still ...