Sansom said the creation of the movie was difficult because they wanted to authentically display both the child’s and parents ...

NEW YORK -- As a child with autism, Owen Suskind was unable to speak and had trouble connecting to the world around him. That is, until his family cracked the code of how to communicate with him. It ...

In the feature film Please Stand By, Dakota Fanning portrays Wendy, a young woman with autism. Ms. Fanning – along with the director, writer and producer of the film – participated in a panel ...

Fargo advocate John David Berdahl turned his personal story of living with autism into a three-year film project exploring mental health, aiming to start conversations and share hope in the community.

Autism spectrum disorder remains an inscrutable medical condition—misunderstood, misrepresented and manipulated by society as an excuse for bad behavior in the political arena and media space. To ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — When he was 3 years old, Tristan Wainwright stopped speaking to his parents. His father, Jeff Wainwright, 44, said Tristan would only repeat movie lines and had severe communication ...

If cartoons are part of your Saturday morning routine, animator/director Bob Clark hopes you’ll be willing to “take the show on the road” this weekend. At 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Texas Energy Museum ...

Over the past 50 years, the New England Center for Children (NECC) has embarked on groundbreaking research and led the way for training in the autism field. In order to celebrate its five-decade ...

JENSEN BEACH, Fla. — The local community is invited to join Surfers for Autism for a watch party at Barbecue Beer Co., located at 1830 NE Jensen Beach Blvd. this Saturday, Aug. 16. The event aims to ...