Autism cases are surging in the New York-New Jersey metro area, mainly fueled by the diagnosis of autistic children who don't have intellectual disabilities, a new study reports. The percentage of ...

A surprisingly high number of kids with autism are later diagnosed with intellectual disability, researchers say, and they suspect the trend is rooted in an effort to retain services into adulthood.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The estimated prevalence of autism among 8-year-olds in a New Jersey study more than tripled during a 6-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 14—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services this week released the latest issue of the Positive ...

Expert Community Care Management (ECCM) is a point of entry for families whose loved ones need services for intellectual disabilities or autism. The Erie County-founded nonprofit, which provides ...

More Ontarians with intellectual and developmental disabilities are losing their homes and facing exploitation, creating, ...

As recently reported in The Australian Financial Review, autism costs the NDIS more than $10 billion annually. A record ...

The additions will bring the total number of SPED schools serving students with this condition from 13 to 16. MOE will ...

Singapore will open three new special education schools, bringing the total to 16 and expanding resources for students with ...

LONDON (AP) — Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers ...