The nonprofit CM Performing Arts Center, in Oakdale, is launching a new program that uses theater to help children with ...

SOUTH BEND — Members of the St. Joseph County Police Department now have a new tool to serve people with autism and other non-verbal individuals. Last week, the department received 150 emergency ...

The first app to use artificial intelligence to power an alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) tool for profoundly autistic and other minimal- and non-speaking users was recently unveiled ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania State Police have a new tool for people with Autism. They unveiled informational cards on Monday to better help communication with officers. Police want people with ...

Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to ...

There has never been a better time to be a person who is affected by autism. Whether it is a parent of a special needs child who needs a support community, a teacher seeking the tools to reach a ...

WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. -- Tuesday, April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. In light of that, we visited two programs on Maryland's Eastern Shore that work directly with special needs students and ...

WEST BABYLON, N.Y.-- Suffolk County law enforcement officers are now equipped with a tool to help people on the autism spectrum during potentially stressful encounters. It was designed by a young man ...

For children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), routine medical procedures such as having their blood drawn can be very difficult. Communication and social interaction deficits and reliance on fixed ...