States are no strangers to classroom standards. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in 2002, the federal government required states to create teacher standards and place highly ...

Improving social communication skills in children with autism has traditionally relied on structured teaching approaches and ...

This morning, I read an article online at Education Week titled, "Where Are the Autism Teaching Competencies?" (1) This commentary calls attention to the fact that only a few states have set forth ...

A new study proposes a new learning method for people with autism that may accelerate the learning process and even significantly improve capabilities in terms of visual perception. According to the ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Jim Elliott—a long-time reader contributor to Notes and one of the core ...

WAUKESHA (WITI) -- The parents of a Waukesha boy with autism say they "lost him" when he was a toddler and the autism took hold. Unable to speak, his parents wondered what, if anything was going on ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University proposes a new learning method for people with autism that may accelerate the learning process and even significantly improve capabilities in terms of visual ...

A new study has found that an intensive early-intervention therapy that is effective at improving young children’s cognition and language skills can normalize the brain activity of those with autism.