Gianna Joachim is a hurricane, a twister of giggles and screeches, a steel blue-eyed, ivory-skinned 7-year-old whose internal motor is always revving at top speed. Gianna hurls herself on the floor ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a news conference on April 22. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted ...

I don’t begrudge Bill Gates’s musings that he would have been put on the autism spectrum if he were a child today. Yet as a parent of a young adult who is nonverbal with severe autism, I’d like to ...

ALTOONA, Iowa — The Shur family is now without their son, 6-year-old Elliot, who had autism, after he drowned in a pond at Enabling Garden in Altoona on Tuesday. Last year, 82 children with autism ...

Imagine going through life knowing you experience the world differently than the average person, but not knowing why. Perhaps you don’t understand why loud noises, such as balloons popping, are ...

At four years old, he gently pets flowers and belly laughs when a strong wind blows. He loves to hug his big brother. Maverick is also severely autistic, and according to our new U.S. Health Secretary ...