If you are taking an autistic child or going yourself as an autistic adult to a clinic that weighs people or uses an exam table, something changed this summer.

The recent traumatic storms in the Northwest have left families of children with exceptional abilities facing overwhelming new challenges.

For more than a decade, most federal contractors have had a number to work toward: 7 percent of each job group, people with disabilities. On August 21, the Labor Department published a final rule that takes that measuring stick away. This is not a story about every workplace in America, and it is not a repeal of the ADA. It is what one contractor rule counted, and what it will stop counting on September 21. What actually changed Disability Scoop reported the news on August 31

Researchers have spent years naming genes tied to autism risk.

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