Mother Bridget Wood tells us why she decided not to give in, but to fight to help her daughter and other young autistic ...

Parenting coach and toddler expert Devon Kuntzman shares her best advice for how to manage public trantrums.

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 36 children. That is nearly the equivalent of one child per classroom. This number has risen in recent years with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Autistic youth are more likely to struggle with suicidal thoughts and mental health conditions than non-autistic ...

When I began working with autistic adults, there was only one book I could find on the topic. It held a very narrow perspective on what autistic adults needed. Over the last 10 years, autism advocates ...

When Aimee Karpien adopted her son, Henry, at 18 months old, she immediately suspected he had developmental delays and sensory processing challenges. “We quickly pursued evaluation through early ...

My daughter Carys was two when she discovered the devastating injustice of gravity. She’d been carefully stacking wooden blocks into a tower. It was higher than any structure she’d built before, but ...

TUESDAY, Dec. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Parents can better defuse their kids’ temper tantrums with the help of AI-powered smartwatch monitoring, a new study says. Smartwatch alerts of an impending ...

A friend whose daughter is autistic recently told me that her therapist encouraged her to mourn the daughter she didn’t get (i.e., the neurotypical one). My friend struggles to parent her daughter, ...

David Trembath is employed by The Kids Research Institute Australia, which holds the copyright for the Inklings Program, which may be relevant to the Thriving Kids support system discussed in this ...