Maryland leaders shared a five-year autism plan for the state during Autism Acceptance Month in April. The plan focuses on education, safety and implementing inclusive policies. According to Lt. Gov.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — April marks Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month, and while public understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has grown, so has a critical shortage in trained ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy’s recently unveiled plan to identify the causes of autism relies heavily on chart reviews and retrospective data. While framed as a step toward addressing a ...

Autism experts and advocates expressed alarm after the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it intends to create a database of enrolled Medicare and Medicaid patients to support a ...

WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare to help study autism although experts say it's ...

The initiative grows out of repeated incidents in which children went missing, a behavior social workers say is common among children on the autism spectrum ...