A number of news media reports have detailed physical or even sexual assaults by children with autism or intellectual disabilities. In some cases, the victims have suffered serious head injuries. At ...

For inpatient youths with autism, machine learning analyses of preceding changes in peripheral physiology can predict imminent aggressive behaviors before they occur, according to a study published ...

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

The number of children receiving an autism diagnosis has surged significantly over the past two decades. According to data ...

"Thank God you don't have autistic kids. You don't deserve them." A mom has gone viral in recent days after the video she shared showing a "hard day" with her son, who has autism, sparked a tidal wave ...