Some kids who are neurodivergent are discovering a beneficial love for coding. Kids are concentrating and collaborating as ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — An East Hartford mother is calling for accountability. Shenika Carroll said her 6-year-old son, Jahrell, was illegally restrained multiple times by staff members while ...

In the final days of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers are urged to support some of the most vulnerable.

The latest surveillance data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a steep rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), extending a years-long trend of ...

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have acce ...

The health secretary had claimed that people with autism will never play baseball, go out on dates, pay taxes, write poems, or hold down a job. Freelance Writer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling ...

Kennedy Jr.'s new effort to study autism, the NIH's top official said Monday. The new data will allow external researchers picked for Kennedy's autism studies to study "comprehensive" patient data ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to discover the cause of autism by September, saying the “autism epidemic is running rampant.” While cases are on the rise ...

Autism is more common than ever before, a new report suggests. As of 2022, about 1 in 31 children in the United States were diagnosed with autism by the time they were 8 years old, researchers ...

Another example of this are emerging ties between gut health and autism. Exciting new research, now moving to Phase 3 human trials, has found boosting microbial diversity via fecal transplants can ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed autism is caused by environmental toxins and is preventable, contradicting scientific consensus. The recent increase in autism prevalence likely ...

Members of the autism community are pushing back against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to find the cause for autism by September, calling the plan harmful.