Scientific journals' tendency to favor studies with positive test results may have skewed the understanding of how effective antidepressants actually ...
AP | By LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 02.28.2012
WASHINGTON -- Early diagnosis is considered key for autism, but minority children tend to be diagnosed later than white children. Some new work is beg...
Todd Drezner | Posted 03.12.2012
Why does the autism community continue to obsess over categorizing people as high or low functioning? It's true that the needs of one autistic person may be very different from the needs of another, but that doesn't mean that they have nothing in common.
Larry Strauss | Posted 01.23.2012
Sometimes my students ask me why I became a teacher. No simple answer. It was a combination of things, probably starting when, though I am three-and-a-half years younger than my brother, I became the older brother.
Elaine Hall | Posted 11.17.2011
All too often, because folks don't know what to do, they do nothing! Even to the extent of avoiding the family out of fear.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 11.17.2011
My son has worked so hard to not be "imprisoned in darkness" as he so eloquently put it in the commencement speech he gave at his high school graduation on Friday, June 18.
Janet Grillo | Posted 11.17.2011
So here I am, in the middle of my life, filling up my own room. What took me so long?
Elaine Hall | Posted 11.17.2011
This simple act of kindness at Koo Koo Roo made me come back again, and again. Why do I bring this up on a blog about autism? Just to say how important it is to go the extra mile for others.
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Leo Lytel was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. But by age 9 he had overcome the disorder. His progress is part of a growing body of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 04.24.2012