Autism

I'm rooting for Musk to elevate the conversation and send a positive message for those who need it most in the autism community

Musk revealed that he had the syndrome while guest hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live.

A viral video shows an unidentified Vacaville, California police officer shouting "you're gonna get hurt, don't make me hurt you more" after punching a restrained a 17-year-old autistic boy in the face last week.

In the Facebook post, the teen's father wrote: "Some of you know and some of you don't, but my 17 year year old son, Preston, has Autism and ADHD...On April 21st at approximately 2:30 pm Preston was Aggressively approached by a Vacaville, California police officer."

Google and Autism Speaks have drawn ire online for their controversial campaign that aims to create a database of genetic materials for researchers to access. Many online, however, have accused the organization of aiming to "cure" autism with the latest project.

Nina Skov Jensen told Newsweek, "There isn't much she can do at this point to earn our forgiveness, except destroy the entire fiasco of a movie and apologize properly."

"Music" already caused controversy over its portrayal of autism before the movie came out, but a second wave of fury over the Sia movie has been unleashed now the film is out.

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"F**king sad nobody's even seen the dang movie. My heart has always been in the right place," Sia wrote on Twitter.

The boy was reported to have been evaluated by nurses and placed in a containment room before his mother arrived at the school.

Millions of TikTok users celebrated Micah's achievement.

Officers chased the boy, called Linden, and shot him after his mother called 911 to get him mental health treatment in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The 13-year-old boy's mother said she called police in Salt Lake City, Utah, to request a crisis intervention team because he was having a mental breakdown.

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The research involved over 641,000 people.

We communicate every day with Antonio via FaceTime and he tells me, "Mommy, how come you're not picking me up?" or says that he feels left behind.

Andrea Attree has seen her daughter in a mental health hospital three times since the lockdown came into force.

The influencer adopted 4-year-old Huxley, who has autism, over two years ago. She has four biological children with her husband James.

Over half a dozen children with autism played with a green, feathered artificially intelligent robot called Kiwi for the study.

Lourdes Ponce says her 16-year-old son had an epileptic seizure in a bathroom at an El Pollo Loco restaurant in Fresno, California.

Sade Subbs was reported missing after last being seen on January 9 at 10 p.m. in the area of Lake Jackson Circle in Apopka, Florida.

The policy was intended to combat cyberbullying. "This was never designed to be a long-term solution, and while the intention was good, it became clear that the approach was wrong," TikTok said.

An autism expert told Newsweek "even if you have lived all of your life without the diagnosis, finding out that you have autism can be a very positive experience."

A recent study from John Hopkins University found a correlation between mothers who took Tylenol while pregnant and babies with developmental disorders, but researchers have yet to prove whether the drug was the cause of the neurological differences.

Scientists studied the brains of over 3,500 people for the study.

Carrying a blue bucket on Halloween has become a way to ask others to be sensitive to those who might find trick-or-treating a challenge.

Chyanne Thomas, an employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Vista, California, became a hero twice over when she helped return a pair of missing children to their homes in the space of two weeks.

The Autism CARES Act of 2019 will see funding go towards people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families—a package that will be spread out over a five-year period.

The team used "optogenetic manipulation" to help teach a zebra finch a song.

People of color and children from low-income backgrounds were more likely to miss screenings, the authors found.