Children on the autism spectrum face a much higher risk of drowning. WPTV is connecting parents with a new resource that is ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

Readers share their experiences with autism spectrum disorders and why more resources are needed. You’re reading The Checkup ...

As summer approaches, parents are faced with the challenge of preventing their children from losing what they learned during the school year.

Carving up the spectrum allows for more targeted research and interventions. But that only works if everyone does it the same ...

Families often come to me with concerns about their child’s behavior and development in the first few years of life. Parents ...

and numerous family-friendly activities. Elliott said that raising the profile of the Autism Society is a priority. “We are really leaning into our fundraising campaign and hoping people will ...

Over the course of a decades-long career, I had a number of fraught conversations with parents who desperately wanted their ...

Students at Reading High School celebrated a grand opening. The project is a student-run coffee shop, Castle Cafe, operated ...

Many have criticized U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in recent weeks for making sweeping claims about the cause and prevalence of autism and the United States. At a news conference last ...