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Audrey and Richard McIntosh are fighting to change the Title IX process in higher education after their son was expelled from college.

A mother went viral after she encouraged parents with autistic children to carry blue trick-or-treat buckets for autism awareness at Halloween.

A 23-year-old blind singer with autism was crowned the winner of America’s Got Talent on Wednesday against the runner up Detroit Youth Choir.

A grandfather and his grandson who was born blind recently mailed a very special gift to the White House.

A Florida woman is breaking barriers as she will become the first beauty pageant contestant in the state of Florida with autism.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call on Monday that the recent measles outbreak in the United States was “completely avoidable.”

A missing two-year-old Summit County, Ohio, resident was safely recovered on Monday after an all-night search.

In New Jersey we find a story about a pack of 13-year-old boys that will renew your faith in man.

A Florida woman diagnosed with autism at the age of three has become the first openly autistic person to pass the Florida Bar and become a licensed attorney in the state.

A Kentucky teacher was caught on video dragging a nine-year-old autistic boy down the hallways of an elementary school.

Conservative activist Ashton Whitty talks about her strange childhood as the daughter of West coast liberal parents and being just about the only Trump fan at Berkeley.

Five people in Louisiana are facing federal charges for keeping their autistic relative in a cage and forcing her to eat her mother’s ashes, authorities announced Thursday.

President Trump issued a proclamation declaring April 2, 2018, “World Autism Awareness Day” to recognize the accomplishments of those with autism in the U.S. and around the globe.

Nancy MacLean, a history professor at Duke University, -argued in a recent lecture a “shocking” amount of libertarians are on the “autism spectrum.”

If you put this stuff in a screenplay, Hollywood would throw it out. However, when it comes to the world’s most instantly recognizable baseball player, it’s just Tebow being Tebow.

An illegal immigrant, along with another man, is accused of kidnapping and repeatedly raping a woman with autism while holding her against her will.

The Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders is using robots to both study and treat children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Comedian Rosie O’Donnell apologized to future First Lady Melania Trump for sharing a video via Twitter that suggested that 10-year-old Barron Trump could be autistic.

Future First Lady Melania Trump is taking action to remove a video from the Internet that questions whether her 10-year-old son Barron is autistic — and has slammed Rosie O’Donnell as a “bully” for sharing the video on social media.

Rosie O’Donnell took to her website Saturday to defend herself after posting a tweet last week questioning whether Donald Trump’s son, Barron Trump, is autistic.

A team of Israeli researchers reportedly discovered a unique evolutionary signature in genes associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that could lead to a better understanding of the genetic nature of the syndrome.

Earlier this week, a photo of Florida State University football star Travis Rudolph sitting with an 11-year-old boy who was all by himself at the lunch table went viral. The boy, Bo Paske, his mother, Leah, appeared on Thursday’s “Fox

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts discriminated against children with autism and their families by depriving them of “full enjoyment” of the company’s theme parks, a Florida civil rights commission ruled this week.

Rapper 50 Cent is accused of bullying an apparently disabled teen, whom he alleged, in a video he posted on Instagram Sunday, of being high on drugs.

Robert DeNiro and the Tribeca Film Festival have cancelled the premiere of a controversial anti-vaccination film that had been slated to screen at the New York City festival.

ABC News has the story: Pvt. E never thought he’d join the army. As someone on the autism spectrum, he struggled with certain social situations and would get easily distracted. Now, at 19, he is serving in a sensitive intelligence

Israel’s first college aimed specifically at students with autism, Asperger’s syndrome and complex learning disabilities is set to open in March 2016. According to the NRG news website, the BE Academic College will be a collaboration between Beit Ekstein, an

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that while is in favor of vaccines, the dosage and timing have a link to autism at Wednesday’s primetime debate on CNN. Trump said, “Autism has become an epidemic. 25 years ago, 35 years ago,

One man’s emotionally fraught journey to meet Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is the subject of next month’s documentary Mission to Lars.

A blind austic 14-year-old singer with autism delivered the national anthem before the Cleveland Indians-Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston and received a roaring ovation from those in attendance. Christopher Duffley of Manchester, NH, who was born prematurely at at

Two 12-year-old Ohio girls were given a year in jail each for their part in a vicious assault on an autistic girl that was caught on a video that went viral earlier this year.

A new study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has added fuel to the argument that the MMR vaccine is not causing autism.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., an outspoken opponent of vaccinations for children, apologized Monday for cavalierly using Holocaust imagery when he spoke of mandatory vaccines.

Hollywood’s famous Chinese Theater hosted the timely red carpet premiere of the anti-vaccine film Trace Amounts on Wednesday evening.The film challenges the safety of vaccines that may contain the potentially harmful preservative thimerosal. The film’s release comes in the middle of a measles outbreak that has put the debate over childhood vaccinations in the national spotlight.

USA Today has uncovered a 2008 Pentagon report that claims Russian President Vladimir Putin has exhibited symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome, which is a form of autism. The Office of Net Assessment (ONA), a Pentagon think tank, compiled the report.

News is emerging that wealthy Hillary Clinton donors Albert and Claire Dwoskin are also critics of vaccination.