Matthew Lerner, PhD, an associate professor in the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, was quoted in a May 2 Los Angeles Times article about the International Society for Autism Research’s annual meeting ...

Staff report The Autism Society of the Mahoning Valley has a new executive director, at least temporarily, after Stacie Bacorn resigned after her guilty plea earlier this week in Stark County Common ...

The agency’s review of the two other deaths of children with special needs is still underway. One of the completed cases involved Joshua James McCoy, a 5-year-old with autism who wandered away ...

The topic was what he described as an “alarming ... epidemic” of autism, supposedly documented by a new report by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network of the Centers ...

On Thursday, an HHS spokesperson said that the agency was developing “a secure data repository” of “large-scale, de-identified data to better understand the causes of conditions like autism ...

The annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research took place in Seattle from April 30–May 3, 2025. In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services disclosed that it ...