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 ...

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

About 5 years ago, a group of Harvard medical students went to instructor Dorothy W. Tolchin, MD, with an idea: Train students to graduate with the skills, perspective, and humility to take good care ...

Clusters of children diagnosed with autism tend to occur in places where parents are older, more educated, and white, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The ...

The nonprofit CM Performing Arts Center, in Oakdale, is launching a new program that uses theater to help children with ...

Approximately 70% of the autistic population has at least one, if not multiple, co-occurring mental health issues. That figure comes from studies of children and adolescents, but we have no reason to ...

How does the Catholic church respond to children with an autism disorder and to their families, especially when many parents fear that their child may act out during Mass, causing the family to ...

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