Children with autism sometimes wander away, or elope, from parents or caregivers. Many autistic kids are also drawn to water, regardless of its temperature, because it offers a calming sensory effect.

“Even now, I observe little improvement in the system. Schools offer admission but fail to include autistic children meaningfully, leaving parents distressed. Training for teachers and shadow ...

Given a say in what is prioritized, they have secured incremental increases in funding to develop services to improve autistic people ... As a result, the number of kids with an autism diagnosis ...

The kids developed the scripts and scenarios in consultation with autistic students and behavioral psychologists. For example, you can practice meeting new students in the hallway, study in the ...

This centre trains autistic children. Reema Mukherjee, a facilitator of the caregiver skill training programme (CSTP) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and a psychologist by profession, held the ...

His three kids, twins Leo and Penelope, aged 11, and eight year old Felicity, along with their mum – Paddy's former wife Christine – are autistic. "With my children, because they have autism ...

McIlwain said drowning deaths among autistic kids had not been trending up before 2024. There was a record low number of these types of deaths in 2020. "Last year was an outlier," she said.