Parents and professionals who work with autistic individuals need to be educated on the many positive functions the special interests have.

Girls and women on the spectrum are often overlooked, diagnosed with other conditions, or diagnosed later in life when compared to boys.

Imagine if your car's brakes worked only some of the time, and you would have no way of predicting when they will work and when they won't.

"Society defines disabled people as incompetent, inferior, and permanently infantile." Lydia X.Z. Brown

Mild autism doesn’t mean one experiences autism mildly . . . It means YOU experience their autism mildly.

Children with autism require special approach because they are less capable of coping with the social and emotional aspects of divorce.

School after school, district after district, year in and year out, with inevitable predictability, I hear the same excuses.

Sensory differences should always be considered as a factor a child on the autism spectrum, even if the child is not showing any distress.

Children were put in rooms alone, with adults outside writing down their every move.

As the holiday season is coming upon us, those of us connected to autism find ourselves thinking about meltdowns.

Each grid has a distinct purpose. If you understand what it is and how to use it, your child’s IEP is going to serve him/her so much better.

The title of the article sounded like a horror movie title. I needed to know more.

The day of diagnosis is impactful and never forgotten. Your child is the same as before, yet everything is d

I have been wondering for a while why it can be so difficult to help IEP teams see certain challenges that can be so obvious to...