If you have been watching autism headlines and wondering whether the numbers are “exploding,” a new study from Saint Louis University and SSM Health has a calmer answer.

If you are raising an autistic child who needs home nursing, or you are an autistic adult who wants to stay in your own apartment with supports — not a nursing home or a locked ward — the news from the Justice Department this summer was scary. A federal memo said the department no longer reads disability law the way it used to on community living. Here is the part that matters at the kitchen table: the Supreme Court decision that protects community living was not repealed. A

You already know the kitchen-table version: the same person can be autistic and have ADHD.

What “Virtual Autism” Research Actually Says About Screens and Autism-Like Changes

If you are taking an autistic child or going yourself as an autistic adult to a clinic that weighs people or uses an exam table, something changed this summer.

The recent traumatic storms in the Northwest have left families of children with exceptional abilities facing overwhelming new challenges.

For more than a decade, most federal contractors have had a number to work toward: 7 percent of each job group, people with disabilities. On August 21, the Labor Department published a final rule that takes that measuring stick away. This is not a story about every workplace in America, and it is not a repeal of the ADA. It is what one contractor rule counted, and what it will stop counting on September 21. What actually changed Disability Scoop reported the news on August 31

Researchers have spent years naming genes tied to autism risk.