Now more than ever, it is important to choose positivity over negativity. We must support and uplift the autism community.

His idea evokes the danger posed historically by officials who view people who are mentally ill or physically disabled as a ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stark comments about children with autism have splintered a community of ...

MedPage Today and Fierce Healthcare examine the Trump administration's 2026 budget proposal, released Friday. Proposed funding cuts will affect public health programs, research initiatives, cancer, ...

Autism destroys families ... Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. Garcia: I hear him taking some of the most intimate and graphic details of autistic people’s lives and using ...

And HHS Secretary Kennedy said recently — and I'm quoting from him now — "Most cases now are severe; 25 percent of the kids who are diagnosed with autism are nonverbal, non-toilet-trained and ...

many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.” Settles says this isn’t reflective of the autism spectrum recognized today. “Some people on the spectrum are the most brilliant individuals ...

Many of them will never use the toilet unassisted,” Kennedy said at an April press conference. He later clarified that he was referring to people with “profound autism.” In a Cabinet meeting ...

and he faced criticism for saying people with autism will “never” pay taxes, hold a job, play baseball, write a poem, go on a date or use a toilet without assistance. Kennedy later said he was ...

Autism is a relatively new diagnostic category ... would never “hold a job,” “go out on a date,” or “use a toilet unassisted.” These statements swiftly drew criticism from autism ...