For a fee, visitors can spend an hour playing with, snuggling and sharing snacks with the shop’s dozen or so resident pug ...

(Don Boomer / For The San Diego Union-Tribune) Lambert and her husband, Rick, purchased their first pug in 2013 as a companion for their son Cody, who is on the autism spectrum. “Cody would have ...

Chico Menchaca said this is the first year he's hosted this toy drive. "We are doing this toy drive to help out Autism Christmas party, and what we wanted to do is have a Christmas party where ...

President-elect Donald Trump said in a new interview that he would consider altering childhood vaccination programs in the United States and questioned whether vaccines cause autism—a widely ...

The maternal wellbeing expert, who like her three children has autism, has spoken about why this time of year can be “very challenging” for both her and her kids. And she has revealed why the ...

This is, of course, balderdash. Poppycock. It’s malarkey. It’s a gross misinterpretation of what autism is. Autistic — so-called “spectrum-y” — people have historically been thought to ...

Long discredited claims linking childhood vaccines to autism may have found a particularly receptive audience with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has suggested ...

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.

President-elect Donald Trump refused to say definitively that vaccines do not cause autism at a press conference. Trump spoke alongside the chief executive at SoftBank, who pledged to invest $100 ...

Character.AI When worried parents noticed a change in the teen, who is slightly autistic, the bot seemed to try to convince him his family didn’t love him, according to the lawsuit, filed by the ...

Certain genetic and environmental factors can contribute to its development. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or autism, is a broad term used to describe a group of neurodevelopmental conditions.

While there’s no cure for autism, there are many approaches that can help both children and adults manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life. Autism spectrum disorder is a ...