Kids with autism can be 160 times more likely than other children to drown. Florida is dedicating state money to a program ...

TRICARE, the military’s healthcare program, limits coverage of applied behavior analysis, a type of therapy for people with ...

A rapidly growing industry often overprescribes treatment to young children with autism, who spend as many as 40 hours a week at the facilities. By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz Graphics by Asmaa ...

Schools spend a lot of time on managing kids' behaviors; Dr. Ross Greene implores adults to instead first look at the unsolved problems that triggers the outbursts. Ki Sung talks with clinical ...

Christopher Mukiibi started teaching high school chemistry in Southern California five years ago because he wanted to have a positive impact on students. Instead, he found that he had to spend most of ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- A Texas school behavior specialist has been charged with injury to the disabled after an incident at a district campus last week, according to court records. The student was ...

Approach-withdrawal behavior patterns, specifically dysregulated negative affect and resistance to routine, were central to the development of co-occurring psychiatric symptoms in children with autism ...

Managing student behavior is a perennial teaching challenge—and one novice teachers invariably feel unprepared to face, amid rising reports of class disruptions, student mental health problems, and ...

Autism spectrum disorder is often described in terms of behavior, communication differences, sensory sensitivity, and repetitive patterns. But beneath those outward characteristics lies a growing body ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in how people interact or communicate with others, as well as restricted interests and repetitive patterns ...

Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism ...