An Alzheimer’s disease pill might help kids with autism Memantine boosted social functioning among these kids and teens The drug blocks the activity of the neurotransmitter glutamate, which is found ...

The old Swansea Mall, which houses a gym, a church, and a storage business, gained a new tenant. Butterfly Effects is a company that provides supportive services to children with autism. They're ...

The dementia drug memantine showed promise for improving social functioning in a small trial of youth with autism. Nine of 16 children and adolescents treated with memantine met the response criteria ...

Rose Baumann would be the first to say that there's a need for more government attention to autism. She describes her 24-year-old son, Collin, as profoundly autistic. He is able to speak only a few ...

The federal administration offered health guidance at a press conference this week, urging pregnant women to avoid using the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen, marketed in the U.S. as Tylenol, ...

Autism is a topic Brittany Slawter cares about deeply. All three of her children − ages 11, 12 and 13 − have autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, the clinical name for the condition commonly referred to ...

Child care providers say they don't have sufficient resources to meet the needs of children under their care who have special needs, most often autism. (This article has been updated to correct an ...

A South Carolina teaching assistant is accused of using a spray that damaged the school and got kids sick. Photo by MChe Lee via Unsplash A teaching assistant in South Carolina is facing charges after ...

Meticulously rolling, twisting and weaving the dough, about 20 young bakers prepared for the Jewish new year by making sweet round challah bread Sunday during Torah school at Congregation Kneseth ...

What they found was that 2% of kids born to mothers who had no opioid use had received an autism diagnosis by the age of 10, versus 2.9% in kids exposed to a low dose of prescribed painkillers while ...

Back-to-school season often comes with new routines and expectations. The carefree days of summer can feel far away, and children are suddenly asked to adjust quickly to classroom rules, schedules, ...

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