U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the award of $11.6 million in grants to help develop highly qualified teachers for students with disabilities, especially in areas where chronic shortages exist. The money will also be...

Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. This abnormality predicts the level of disability,...

PROVIDENCE – Parents trying to navigate the special education system will soon have a helping hand, a go-to program at the state Department of Education to help resolve disputes. State lawmakers last session approved $450,000 for the creation...

The phrase “autism treatment” can cause quite a controversy in the autism community. At one time, autism was viewed as something “wrong” with a person that needed to be cured. As more research has been done, we’ve learned much more about autism...

Results of an study by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center suggest that dairy-free diets and unconventional food preferences could put boys with autism and autism spectrum...

I do a significant amount of autism testing. I also treat many adults with autism using neuroaffirmative approaches to autism treatment. In my practice, I have noted that one of the diagnostic criteria that other providers evaluate heavily when...

In 1970, only 1 child in 10,000 was diagnosed with autism. Today, according to the CDC, the number is 1 in 59. Expansion of the diagnosis to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the DSM-5 might explain some of the difference in the number of...

NICHCY's Evidence for Education looks at the research foundations for strategy instruction and some of the most well-known approaches to teaching strategies Strategy Instruction is a powerful student-centered approach to teaching that is backed...

Beyond access to better schools and resources in early childhood, a child’s neighbourhood plays a role in shaping his or her development. This column discusses the influence of neighbourhoods on early childhood development, drawing upon...

In an often self-absorbed Silicon Valley, where startups are sometimes accused of obsessing on petty first-world problems instead of making the world a better place, several Bay Area entrepreneurs were honored this week in New York City for...