Traveling with family often creates those unforgettable memories we cherish, but for neurodiverse families, the journey itself can sometimes feel like a big hurdle.

The August 2026 CMS Medicaid ABA toolkit is guidance for states. It does not mandate ABA, endorse ABA as the only treatment, or cut EPSDT. The official name is the State Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Toolkit. CMS posted it on August 4, 2026. This paper stays inside that document and the numbers CMS published with it. It is not a ranking of therapies. It is not a clinic ad. Spend and caseload are two different lines Med

A 2026 sample of 412 autistic adults found 31.3 percent fully employed, 28.6 percent underemployed, and 40.1 percent unemployed. Reviews still cite 50 to 85 percent unemployed or underemployed. Those are two different papers. Do not mash them into one U.S. rate. This is not a cure story. It is not a job-program pitch. It is what the 2026 studies actually counted. Two papers. Keep them apart. The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders integrative review looked across em

CDC ADDM identified autism in 1 in 31 eight-year-olds across 16 sites in 2022. That is 32.2 children per 1,000. The range was 9.7 per 1,000 in Laredo, Texas (about 1 in 103) to 53.1 in California (about 1 in 19). This is not a U.S. census. The CDC autism 2025 community report is a 2022 surveillance year, published April 17, 2025. Sixteen communities. Not every county. Not a door-to-door count of the country. What “identified” means A child met the ADDM case definition if reco

Thursday, a federal autism panel voted. The plan is long. The ask is bigger. The check is not in the mail.

People have a word for the kid who trips on flat ground, drops the cup, and walks into every doorframe. The word is clumsy. A look at more than 117 million U.S. medical charts says something quieter. Some of those bodies may have loose joints with a real name. This is not a stretch video, a miracle, or a reason to diagnose yourself from a blog. The numbers are for people 15 and older. A huge study. Still a small number. Researchers at Epic looked at outpatient visits from Jan

People call it a social skill when an autistic adult makes the room comfortable. Camouflaging research measures something quieter: the strategies used to hide or compensate for autistic traits, and the cost of doing that work in public. This is Autism Digest’s first research brief. It stays inside published numbers. It does not offer a cure, a training program, or a new way to diagnose anyone. What masking and camouflaging are In 2017, Laura Hull and colleagues asked 92 autis

The IEP already lists them. Noise-reducing headphones. Extra time. A quiet corner for lunch. Maybe AAC. At 3:00 they are still in the backpack. Yesterday we wrote that “appears fine” is not a present level. Today is the next sentence. A support that never leaves the bag is not a support. It is a line on a PDF. Written on the IEP is not the same as used 34 CFR §300.323(d) is blunt. Each teacher and provider responsible for the IEP has to know the specific accommodations, modif