Autism Digest magazine

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 Here is the part that matters at the kitchen table: the Supreme Court decision that protects community living was not repealed.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.

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