DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. – DeKalb County police are searching for a missing 20-year-old man who walked away from a Lithonia group home nine weeks ago. Searching for Alex What we know: Albert “Alex” Waugh disappeared April 14 after walking away from a group home on the 1700 block of South Stone Mountain Road. The missing man has brown…
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. – DeKalb County police are searching for a missing 20-year-old man who walked away from a Lithonia group home nine weeks ago. Searching for Alex What we know: Albert “Alex” Waugh disappeared April 14 after walking away from a group home on the 1700 block of South Stone Mountain Road. The missing man has brown…
Recent increases in ADHD and autism spectrum disorder diagnoses have coincided with a broadening of diagnostic criteria. Credit: MART PRODUCTION for pexels. The rise in the number of cases of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) always gets quite a bit of attention from both the public and the media. This has led…
Recent increases in ADHD and autism spectrum disorder diagnoses have coincided with a broadening of diagnostic criteria. Credit: MART PRODUCTION for pexels. The rise in the number of cases of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) always gets quite a bit of attention from both the public and the media. This has led…
JONES COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) – Whitney Benson spoke exclusively with WITN Friday after her 13-year-old autistic daughter was hit and killed by a dump truck around 4:30 a.m. on April 14th. Benson says the night of April 13th was like any other. Her daughter Maddie went to bed at 10 p.m., and then Whitney woke…
JONES COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) – Whitney Benson spoke exclusively with WITN Friday after her 13-year-old autistic daughter was hit and killed by a dump truck around 4:30 a.m. on April 14th. Benson says the night of April 13th was like any other. Her daughter Maddie went to bed at 10 p.m., and then Whitney woke…
Two programs at UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center at the Gevirtz School of Education are giving local teens something many families struggle to find: a place to build social skills, make friends and spend time together in a supportive environment. Designed for adolescents on the autism spectrum and related neurodivergent profiles, the initiatives combine…
Two programs at UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center at the Gevirtz School of Education are giving local teens something many families struggle to find: a place to build social skills, make friends and spend time together in a supportive environment. Designed for adolescents on the autism spectrum and related neurodivergent profiles, the initiatives combine…
US President Donald Trump’s 2025 announcement linking autism to paracetamol use during pregnancy and endorsing leucovorin treatment may have been widely discredited in the months that followed, but it sparked millions of additional internet searches for the drugs and related products, a study has found. The findings raise concerns about the influence of high-profile health…
US President Donald Trump’s 2025 announcement linking autism to paracetamol use during pregnancy and endorsing leucovorin treatment may have been widely discredited in the months that followed, but it sparked millions of additional internet searches for the drugs and related products, a study has found. The findings raise concerns about the influence of high-profile health…