autism

The Florida teen who savagely beat a teacher over a Nintendo Switch in February 2023 has been sentenced to five years in prison.

First responders honored a 12-year-old Florida boy with autism as a “Hometown Hero” for thinking quickly when his mom suffered a seizure.

The United Cajun Navy (UCN) is stepping in to help search for missing 15-year-old Sebastian Rogers, who seemingly vanished from his home.

A Florida teen accused of beating his teacher will soon face sentencing, and the victim wants him to face the maximum term.

The mother of Brendan Depa, the autistic Florida teen seen beating his teacher unconscious in a February viral video that disturbed the nation, says prison time for her son would be a “death sentence.”

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood has increasingly been providing what the left calls “gender-affirming care” to people who believe they are transgender — and in the case of at least one teen, a clinic allegedly supplied him with sex-change hormones after a 30-minute consultation.

Twenty-one-year-old Max Park from California set the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in 3.13 seconds on June 11.

A 21-year-old Tennessee entrepreneur with autism is running a thriving cardboard recycling business with the help of his family.

A clinic in Ireland has been ordered to pay a patient over $3,000 after it was found to have discriminated against him due to him being unable to wear a mask.

A twelve-year-old Kansas boy and his father are being hailed as heroes for their remarkable caught-on-camera rescue of a drowning 4-year-old boy with nonverbal autism.

A college valedictorian who has nonverbal autism called on her classmates to use the voice God gave them during her commencement speech.

An autistic man in desperate need of help was saved by Michigan State Police troopers on Wednesday and the tense moments were captured on camera.

A troubling video shows that an autistic boy was beaten and his shoes were stolen off of his feet by bullies at a Michigan high school.

Former Cleveland Indians All-Star shortstop Omar Vizquel has been accused of exposing his penis to a 25-year-old autistic batboy, according to a lawsuit.

Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk claimed that he has Asperger’s syndrome while hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday.

An Iowa family said Southwest Airlines denied them from boarding their connecting flight home from St. Louis, Missouri, because their five-year-old son with autism could not wear his mask.

A business owner named Deborah Keeling in Lynchburg, Virginia, made a special friend the moment a boy walked into her shop and asked her a question.

Two upstate New York communities are rallying to replace an autistic teen’s bicycle, which was stolen from his front yard.

A 29-year-old Arizona preschool caregiver was arrested last Tuesday after he was accused of beating a four-year-old with autism.

An Egyptian national was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for killing his two autistic children in a staged car accident so he could collect money off their life insurance policies.

Jenna Roman started a GoFundMe in February to search for a specific brand of waffles for her ten-year-old son with autism, who has been struggling with eating challenges since he was eight months old.

Pop star Sia has apologized and deleted her Twitter account in response to woke backlash over her debut feature film Music. The Golden Globe-nominated film features a scene in which an autistic girl is physically restrained. Controversy also kicked up over the casting of Maddie Ziegler, a non-autistic actor, who plays an autistic character in the movie.

A 16-year-old Florida boy with autism has made it his life’s goal to fix as many American flags as possible.

An Israeli police officer who killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City after mistaking him for a terrorist in a fatal shooting that rocked the country in late May will be charged with second-degree murder, the Police Internal Investigations Department announced on Wednesday.

A Texas mom said her family was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight Monday because her three-year-old autistic son would not wear a mask.

The Center for American Liberty, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Americans, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order barring most schools in the state from reopening because of the spread of the coronavirus.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims that the brain-computer interface being developed by his new startup Neuralink will be able to stream music directly into users’ brains.

A flight attendant and a young man with autism in Keller, Texas, have become close friends thanks to their shared love of airplanes. 

A little girl in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, used scripture recently to calm her autistic sibling who felt anxious about the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

The Washington Post claims hormone treatment to delay puberty is “reversible,” in an article critical of a South Dakota proposed law that would criminalize treating transgender young people with medical treatments or surgery.

A single dad in Belton, Texas, got a huge surprise recently after he asked people to send Christmas cards to his son, who has special needs.

A Florida mother claimed that a neighbor’s Christmas light display inspired her nonverbal daughter with autism to speak her first phrase.

‘Woke’ doctors offering hormones and sex-change surgery for individuals who claim to be transgender may be committing medical malpractice.

Community members in East Nashville, Tennessee, are showing a bullied autistic student that there are still many good people in the world.

The Lancet Countdown, an arm of the Lancet scientific journal associated with its controversial report linking autism and vaccines, has issued a report on the threat of climate change based on more controversial data from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed during a recent appearance on an artificial intelligence podcast that his AI tech startup Neuralink could implant chips into human brains which could “solve a lot of brain-related diseases,” listing schizophrenia and autism as examples.