SALT LAKE CITY ― Significant improvements in productivity, social skills, and problem behavior are being reported in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are exposed to a classroom-based ...

Special training for teachers may mean big results for students with autism spectrum disorder, according to researchers. Special training for teachers may mean big results for students with autism ...

States are no strangers to classroom standards. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in 2002, the federal government required states to create teacher standards and place highly ...

The prevalence of autism in the U.S. has soared in recent decades. There is no single verifiable cause and no magic pill for treatment. But new research suggests earlier diagnosis is possible and, ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. When her daughter Mabel was still an infant, Amelia Toleu noticed that she wasn’t developing in the same way as other ...

The moment of truth came for Yale researcher Warren Jones over 13 years ago. He was a sophomore at Yale pursuing a double major in art and engineering when a small seminar on autism changed the course ...

Public health research was not my first career. Before the words autism outcomes, services research, and life course perspective ever entered my mind, I practiced early intervention for children with ...

Even before he was born, Kristin Hinson knew her son Noah’s odds of developing autism were high. When a child is diagnosed with the disorder, a younger sibling has a heightened risk of receiving the ...

When Young Mind Center owners Amanda Wood and Sara Mertel opened their co-op preschool this fall, their mission to buck the notion of what autism intervention is grew along with their business. The ...

When I first began working in the field, autism interventions were primarily offered in clinic and research-based settings. As those therapies and the scientific understanding of autism evolved and as ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that approximately 1 in 54 children in the United States is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a 2020 report. Boys ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Special training for teachers may mean big results for students with autism spectrum disorder, according to Florida State University and Emory University researchers. In a new ...