Parents often pressure Lawrence Diller, a behavioral/developmental pediatrician, to diagnose their children with autism. He thinks he knows why.

Many readers will have been moved by the story of Maddie Lewis and her parents in The Weekend Australian last month.

Researchers found that daily doses of CBD oil may ease anxiety and improve certain social behaviors in autistic children. The preliminary trial also reports a noticeable drop in the daily stress ...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme pricing model encourages providers to bump up their fees without increasing services ...

Families say lack of therapy supports and staff resources remain unresolved as Carrigaline Community Special School prepares to reopen ...

When Nathalia Assaad first heard the bang, bang, bang, bang that would come to haunt her, she mistook the sound for ...

One mother detailed waking up at 3am to her 11-year-old son covered in faeces. The mother of a 4-year-old said her son had just started making eye contact, but she has never heard him say ‘I love you’ ...

Most people with a disability in Ireland are cared for by their parents. But as those parents grow older, families are being ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who founded an antivaccine group and once likened the immunization of children to a holocaust, is transforming a government that long ...

School discipline should teach, not punish, but that's what bills advancing at the Statehouse would require, writes Jenny ...

Pupils at Usizolwethu Special Needs School in Daveyton, Benoni, celebrated a major boost to their learning on Friday after ...

A young child from Seneca Falls is in the fight of her life against a rare, deadly disease — and her father has taken a leave ...