According to the CDC, about 5.8 million adults are living with autism. For some, living independently can be a challenge. It’s one of the issues being covered at the annual statewide Center For Autism ...

Growing up, Jordan Busits never understood the appeal of romantic comedies like her friends did. When she was in middle school and a classmate asked to be her boyfriend, she recoiled and felt a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. ‘Super flu’ ...

If you’ve dared to hop on X, formerly Twitter, in the last few days, you likely saw Elon Musk’s shocking salute at the end of his inauguration rally speech. You may have also come across users saying ...

Nick Caloway is a multi-skilled journalist who was thrilled to join the CBS News New York news team in August 2019. Since then, Nick has covered crime, politics, the pandemic and more across the ...

Some might roll their eyes about yet another trending health label attached to a condition that is slippery to define. Yet new research suggests that more cases of AuDHD – a crossover of autism ...

Kennedy called autism an "epidemic" at his first press conference as the secretary of health and human services on April 16 Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

Cindi May is a board member for Disability Rights South Carolina and a member of the National Accreditation Team for Inclusive Postsecondary Education. It’s not surprising, then, that unfavorable ...

“It dwarfs the COVID epidemic,” the secretary of health and human services said during an April 20 radio appearance Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...