April is National Autism Awareness Month, and it’s also a time of transition. Students and recent graduates, including neurodiverse teenagers, begin to seek places in the professional world. In the ...

New York, September 2, 2021 – A multi-institution team of researchers, which included autistic university students and alum from the College of Staten Island’s Project REACH (Research and Education on ...

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 ...

Optimize Response Care for Autism Safety, or ORCAS, says its goal is to help both first responders and people with autism while interacting during an emergency.

A new study identified clear strengths and a series of specific challenges autistic adolescents experience while learning to drive. A collaborative study from the Center for Injury Research and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few years ago, sound man Jimmy Lifton began a licensed training institute to help military veterans, including homeless vets, ...

Attention training in young people with autism can lead to significant improvements in academic performance, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK along with ...

A short VR-based training program helped autistic participants practice police interactions in realistic scenarios, reducing fidgeting and improving key response behaviors after just three sessions.

Two years ago, Dawn Turnage’s 18-year-old son Justin walked away from a local pool and into a Best Buy at the Waterford Lakes Town Center, dripping wet and wearing only his underwear. Turnage called ...