Youth and young adults with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, or cerebral palsy experience higher mortality than the general population; causes of death vary widely.

Tallulah Willis has publicly revealed that she was diagnosed with autism. The 30-year-old actress hinted at her struggle with the developmental disability when she took to Instagram on 15 March to ...

Simcha Weinstein, a rabbi and autism advocate from Brooklyn, is named to New York’s Developmental Disabilities Council ...

New estimates show that 61.8 million people around the globe have autism and that the developmental disability is among the most common health issues facing youth. As of 2021, researchers found that 1 ...

Lawmakers approved a short-term extension of the nation’s primary autism law, but the path to renewing the measure, which includes nearly $2 billion for the developmental disability, could be rockier ...

Brooke Olson, co-founder of Alluvial Private Wealth and the ITAALK Autism Foundation, has been appointed to the Marion County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Olson has been a long-time advocate ...

Brooke Olson is a wealth associate and human resources director at Alluvial Private Wealth, president and co-founder of iTaalk Autism, and a Marion County Board of Developmental Disabilities board ...

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as autism and Down syndrome, experience substantially higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population of adults, ...

The hearing on $150 million in proposed cuts to the Developmental Disabilities Administration was mostly dry, until ...

Restraint is emerging as a hot-button topic among autistic self-advocates and some parents. People on both sides feel their position is obviously correct: Restraint leads to abuse, and should be ...

Wings for All helped 129 children and adults with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities take a mock flight, a first for many.