Medically reviewed by Kira Graves, PhD Key Takeaways Severe autism, or level 3 autism spectrum disorder, describes ...

Gianna Joachim is a hurricane, a twister of giggles and screeches, a steel blue-eyed, ivory-skinned 7-year-old whose internal motor is always revving at top speed. Gianna hurls herself on the floor ...

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

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 ...

Look past the widespread outrage over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent remarks about autism, and you will see that many of us whose lives are shaped by the most severe form of the disorder found ...

New Haven nonprofit Legacy Developmental Services is actively working to develop more options for teens and young adults with severe autism. Legacy Developmental Services was founded by Brenda Moore ...

Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) often lose access to specialized ...

Imagine going through life knowing you experience the world differently than the average person, but not knowing why. Perhaps you don’t understand why loud noises, such as balloons popping, are ...

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 ...

December was a dark month. On the 16th, 22-year-old Luke Renner jumped from a cruise ship because he wanted to go swimming. On December 26th, 28-year-old Robert Nicholson was found frozen, two weeks ...

OTSEGO COUNTY — A child from Otsego living with Level 3 severe autism experienced a dream come true thanks to the Sunshine Foundation, which granted her a magical trip to Central Florida’s major theme ...