Updated February 13, 2024 at 8:27 PM ET Melody O'Connor is grateful her teenage daughter Angeleena O'Connor was arrested in the winter of 2022. "Isn't that a horrible thing to say?" Melody said. It ...

BY DR. PANCHAJANYA PAUL, MD* Autism is increasingly common, affecting about one in 31 children in the United States.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As with so many senseless acts of violence— including the shootings in Aurora, CO, last summer and Tucson, AZ, the year before ...

HARTFORD >> An expert told a commission looking into the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre in Connecticut on Friday that there is no data linking autism with increased violent criminal behavior.

This situation could easily have gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and who school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without ...

Special needs and safety advocate Mandi Furniss and Social Media Victims Law Center founding attorney Matthew P. Bergman discuss the dangers of AI chatbots after one allegedly influenced Furniss' son ...

My heart goes out to the families of the children and educators who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, those who witnessed this massacre and to the community of Newtown as well. Following ...

In the wake of the arrest earlier this month of a California couple accused of keeping their 11-year-old autistic son in a cage came the expected cycle of response. First, angry condemnation, such as ...

THE Davao City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO), in partnership with the Autism Society of the Philippines (ASP) ...