There are significantly more Somali preschoolers receiving services for autism as compared to other ethnic groups in Minneapolis schools, according to a new report. But the reason remains unclear.

The Florida teacher who was suspended after encouraging her kindergarten class to vote on whether or not a boy with autism should remain lost her appeal for reinstatement.

A recently discovered skull dating back half a million years suggests that the earliest humans may not have abandoned children with birth defects.

Despite decades of regulations and initiatives designed to promote the hiring of people with disabilities in the federal government, the number of such employees remains low and is shrinking.

As the number of personal care attendants grows in Massachusetts, so too do reports of abuse, neglect and fraud. They are up threefold in the last decade.

Answers to your questions about finding work, interviewing and flexible employment for caregivers.

A voucher program allowing special needs students to use tax dollars to attend private schools is not legal, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled this week.

The $250 one-time stimulus payments included in last month’s economic stimulus package for Social Security recipients are on track to be sent in May.

Less than 10 percent of the 1.3 million Americans who are blind can read braille, according to a report released Thursday by the National Federation of the Blind.

A withdrawn child, Ann Bauer’s son emerged into a well adjusted teen despite having autism. Bauer even thought of him as “cured.” But all of that changed around the time he turned 18.

When a boy with autism got nervous on his first day of school, it took a superhero to coax him down from a third floor ledge.

Bringing a horse to Target is sure to turn a few a heads. But a Fort Worth, Tex. woman who’s doing just that is raising controversy too.

Now that penny-pinching is cool, more and more people are trying group therapy in favor of individual sessions.

Private health insurance companies are offering to end the practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of illness. That is, if all Americans are required to have health coverage.

In the largest allotment of its kind, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is accepting applications for $60 million in research funds to study autism.