Kidisthenics, a pioneering fitness program dedicated to supporting individuals with autism through movement-based ...

A 15-year-old autistic Nigerian has set a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest art canvas in a bid to raise ...

News from around the Southland includes items from Orland Park, Metra Electric line, Flossmoor, Palos Hills, Palos Park and ...

Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke, who is autistic, executed a painting featuring a multi-colored ribbon — the symbol for autism — surrounded by emojis, covering 12,304 square meters. That’s a lot ...

After two years of intense therapy, Lily finally took a bite of a Cheerio. Her parents were ecstatic. “She didn’t make it to ...

She just turned 41, and her autism has affected our family in so many ways — good and not so good. There have been many years when it was very hard to afford her care, especially in the early ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses autism at a news conference in D.C. on April 16. When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D ...

WASHINGTON — For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, alarming researchers and parents. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Sheryl Gay ...