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A week in the life of Jack Leach includes dribbling basketballs at school, cooking salted caramel in the kitchen, and selling cheesecakes from Jack's Cheesecakes concession trailer. Jack doesn't say ...

Good outcomes like this aren't the norm, but are the exception. Autistic children are often attracted to bodies ...

Boredom during the pandemic was the impetus for one 9-year-old's learning how to build a new app—one that ...

A supermarket cashier in Oxford, Massachusetts, recently garnered media attention for a kind gesture shown to a veteran, ...

One food may be able to combat all four purported causal factors of autism: synaptic dysfunction, oxidative stress, ...

Autism currently affects about one in 68 kids in the United States. There are no drugs to treat the ...

A talented 11-year-old boy with autism is producing a series of intricate drawings of cityscapes, all from his ...

Dr. Kaycee Bills, who has autism, fought hard for her PhD against the voices of her disbelievers. Now, ...

A 19-year-old Alberta boy with autism has won support and attention from all over the world after losing ...

In Goose Creek, South Carolina, a special relationship has been forged between a local 8-year-old boy and a ...

Cambridge resident Joe Plumb showed true bravery and resilience this month by responding to those who had bullied ...

An enduring friendship sparked between a thoughtful hotel worker and an inquisitive teen last year when the boy ...

Kerry and Robert Bloch’s only child, their 21-year-old son David, would only speak when prompted and was diagnosed ...

The family of an autistic 5-year-old boy has spoken out after East Ridge Elementary punished him for hugging classmates. ...

The body of a 9-year-old autistic boy was found in a swimming pool hours after police announced he ...

United Airlines won praise from a Texas mother for the way its flight crew handled her 4-year-old son ...

A lottery winner who quit his job working shifts at Amazon to pursue his dream as a screenwriter ...

Two porch pirates took back a stolen package after learning that it contained the prized wrestling belts of ...

A Pennsylvania mother her autistic son was given an end-of-year award by teachers which named him “Most Likely ...

A British mother recounted to Wales Online the shock of realizing her sick autistic son had been left behind at ...

A father from Gary, Indiana, has hit out at a school in the region after his 11-year-old son, ...

From the archives: This story was last updated in May 2019. This man had stolen a wallet from ...

A discount airline prevented a disabled child from boarding a flight because nobody would pay more for a ...

The dismembered body of a 61-year-old man was found charred in a fire pit in the backyard of ...

A mother is waging a legal battle against a school in the United Kingdom that asked her son ...