It's a cliche for a reason—it's not easy being a kid, even under the best of circumstances. But when you're a kid with special needs, it's even harder. The same, of course, is true for parenting when ...

In the academic year so far, the proportion of children who are “persistently absent” from schools in England – missing at ...

In 1938, an Austrian pediatrician named Hans Asperger gave the first public talk on autism in history. Asperger was speaking to an audience of Nazis, and he feared that his patients — children who ...

As a parent of two Autistic boys, I have a first-hand appreciation of how vulnerable autistic young persons are to low self-esteem. From a confident, playful toddler, I witnessed my son’s self-esteem ...

Much of what we know about autism has changed since my son Jonah was diagnosed in 2001, but the metaphors we use to conceptualize it have remained largely the same. Portia Iversen, founder of Cure ...