Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – SPEAK MODalities, a Purdue-affiliated startup commercializing technology that helps communication and language development for children and families affected by severe, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo credit: Adobe Stock) Tiphanee Lee says she placed a recording device in her 7-year-old's locs after growing concerned about ...

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I don’t begrudge Bill Gates’s musings that he would have been put on the autism spectrum if he were a child today. Yet as a parent of a young adult who is nonverbal with severe autism, I’d like to ...

Readers react to a woman’s account of raising her autistic child. To the Editor: Re “Kennedy Described My Daughter’s Reality,” by Emily May (Opinion guest essay, April 27): Ms. May said what too many ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a news conference on April 22. Credit: Getty Images / Andrew Harnik Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A groundbreaking study that claims its subjects had their autism reversed through dietary and therapeutical interventions has been blasted by advocacy groups and experts on the neurodiverse condition ...

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the government’s new autism findings this month, he painted a grim and highly controversial picture: Not only was autism ...

This year, London's Southwark Playhouse announced the cast of a new play, "All in a Row." It was instantly clear this would not be a typical family drama. The play unfolds the night before social ...

Tiphanee Lee says she placed a recording device in her 7-year-old’s locs after growing concerned about how the nonverbal autistic child was being treated at school. A Louisville mother says she took ...