Kennedy launches US autism project using Medicare and Medicaid data

Trump Official’s Autism Schools Secluded and Restrained Students at High Rates

Arizona Autism Charter Schools, whose founder has been tapped to oversee the education of children with disabilities in President Donald Trump’s second administration, has used controversial, potentially dangerous disciplinary practices on its students at an unusually high rate.  In the 2020-21 academic year, the latest for which federal data is available, school staff physically restrained 41% of its students and put 20% in seclusion, which is …

Commentary: On autism and vaccines, there are lies, damned lies and statistics

During an interview in late April with Dr. Phil, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated his appeal to parents on vaccine safety: “We live in a democracy, and part of the responsibility of being a parent is to do your own…

Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy has changed his stance from vaccine criticism to vaccine support and back again. This has hurt the measles response in the United States, writes US correspondent Jacob Fuglsang in this analysis.

Yes, Autism Self-Diagnosis Is On The Rise – But The Moral Panic Is The Real Issue

The expert weighs in on the suggestion that more UK adults "self-identify" as neurodivergent than don't.

My brother was disabled. Defunding disability programs will cost lives.

DHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrong about autism. The cost of cuts to programs for people with disabilities would be paid in lives.

Experts say autism plan unrealistic

WASHINGTON — For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise for "pulling back the curtain" to find autism's causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.