When Sarah Sanders began college, she hoped she would be fine without the special education help she received in high school. Then she found herself struggling in biology class. Fortunately, a ...
A Catalight researcher has been awarded a $4.5 million National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 grant to study RUBIES, a program aimed at reducing challenging behaviors among autistic elementary ...
The Autistic Students Union at Ohio State was created by autistic students, for autistic students. The organization, founded in spring 2022, aims to support and provide a safe space for autistic ...
After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood before a crowd last week and called autism an “epidemic” and “disease” — a term the scientific community abandoned decades ago — ...
When: Solanco school board meeting, Feb. 2. What happened: The board heard from teachers Michele Haverly and Alicia Flemming what an autistic support classroom might look like at the high school next ...
About 1 out of every 100 students in American public schools has autism. A subset of these students also have academic gifts and talents in a broad range of areas, including math, science, technology, ...
A s Otto Lewis, a sophomore at Western Kentucky University, sees it, he’s actually pretty lucky. True, he has autism, a developmental disorder that makes navigating college — and life in general — ...
As schools across the country welcome students back to campus, these changes may be a struggle for those students with autism and create a significant safety risk: wandering. Wandering, also known as ...
An 11-year-old primary school student has started a petition calling on the government to ensure there is a sensory area in every classroom for students with special educational needs and disabilities ...