Yesterday, I received this email from a reader: I was hoping you could help me....We have a couple that we have grown extremely close to over the past few years. They ... Read More

Digital Vision/Getty Images Hey, look at this picture! The father and daughter appear to be sitting in the front (bulkhead) seats of the airplane, and the little girl ... Read More

A mom and her autistic child were thrown off a plane. Various versions of this story seem to agree that this particular situation was a sort of "perfect storm" ... Read More

Titus Lacoste/Getty Images Soccer is a sport that involves split-second timing, total focus, and a strong understanding of team interaction. Baseball requires impressive hand-eye coordination and an ability ... Read More

Give away autism products you no longer need to family that needs them. Get products you're looking for from another family that been there and done that. What ... Read More

Walther Bear/Getty Images Yesterday, my dad - who has Parkinsons and a gimpy hip - got out on the golf course and blew away the pro with fifteen perfect ... Read More

A story of an autistic man gone missing from a camp has been in and out of the headlines for the past seven days. Just this morning, the good ... Read More

I'm reading a book called Please Don't Label My Child by Scott M. Shannon, MD. Shannon is a holistic doctor, and his message is summed up in his subtitle: ... Read More

A couple of days ago, journalist David Kirby wrote in the Huffington Post of a "potentially explosive" admission by the CDC. CDC Director Julie Gerberding had apparently admitted that ... Read More

Parents of children with physical illnesses rely on medical doctors (the experts) to diagnose, prescribe and treat their children. Parents of children with mental illnesses, for the most part, ... Read More

This is a question that's been bugging me ever since 9-year-old Hannah Poling's family received a settlement from the Vaccine Court. Evidently the combination of an underlying mitochondrial disorder ... Read More

Sky Bergman/Getty Images In the past few weeks, two of my friends have had their young adult sons return to the nest. Both young men were not only typically developing - ... Read More

As the school year draws to an end, many parents are meeting with their child's IEP "team" to discuss plans for next year. In our particular case, we never felt that ... Read More

An About.com reader noted that Autism Speaks (the world's largest autism-related non-profit)had posted a whole page of tributes to autism dads for Father's Day. So I went to take ... Read More

In many families with autistic children, the mom takes a leading role. She may become researcher and therapist, advocate and manager. This can leave a dad feeling disconnected from his ... Read More

Stephen Wilkes/Getty Images This Sunday is Father's Day. Of course there are many wonderful autism dads out there, some of whom run their own blogs - and many ... Read More

NBC/Getty Images I think I watched two episodes of the soap opera Days of Our Lives back in the 1970's. I haven't seen the show since then. So ... Read More

If you've been following autism news, you'll have seen a lot of articles out there about a grandfather who invented a web browser especially for his autistic grandson, Zack. ... Read More

When I first started writing about autism, I was told in no uncertain terms that "people first language" - i.e. "people with autism" as opposed to "autistic people" - was ... Read More

For folks interested in the neurodiversity/autism advocacy movement, you'll want to check out this story and video on the ABC News Site. Featured are Kristina Chew of the Autismvox ... Read More

In the last few days, I've read several articles about "amazing" treatments for autism. The treatments, according to these articles, had a profound impact on youngsters with autistic speech ... Read More

I'm going to write several articles based on a recent interview with Dr. James Coplan, a developmental pediatrician specializing in autism. But before I do, I just have to ... Read More

Yesterday, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey led a march on Washington to "Green Our Vaccines." Thousands of parents were there in person; others, I'm sure, were there in spirit. The ... Read More

A few weeks ago, I received an email from a worried grandmother. Among her other concerns, she wondered whether she might have been the cause of her twin grandchildrens' ... Read More

Juan Silva/David Joel A notice on the Fox News site includes an overview of a new study about low birth weight and autism: Scientists with the CDC examined 565 children ... Read More

An article in today's Daily Mail (a major publication in the UK) is titled "The great autism rip-off ... How a huge industry feeds on parents desperate to cure their ... Read More