Some call it the '“gold standard” of autism care but the therapy is not cheap and many state Medicaid programs are cutting ...

Applied behavior analysis has become one of Medicaid’s fastest-growing costs, prompting cuts that families say threaten ...

Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of the Kennedy family and aunt of RFK Jr., was lobotomized in 1941. Born with a lack of oxygen at birth, she experienced developmental disabilities, seizures, ...

The first time my youngest son headbanged, he was about 3 years old. He flung his head back so hard, I heard it thud from the other room. I panicked — rushed to him, felt the back of his head for a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. The ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville family was back in Frankfort on Wednesday to share their experience moving their autistic son to Kansas to receive the care he couldn’t get here at home. Frankie ...

In a busy Washington, D.C. classroom, a student rocks gently in his chair, hands over his ears. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the media company who has been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. The ...