(WBIR) - Public school systems across the nation are rethinking special education, as the number of children diagnosed with autism continues to rise. Currently, those students get what's called an ...

Facing a staggering 47% increase in the number of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) students enrolled in its district since 2010, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools — like most school districts in the ...

While many educators and students are returning to the familiar classrooms left abruptly in March, teaching this upcoming year will be anything but business as usual. In a recent edWebinar, Aimee ...

Democratic lawmakers in each chamber of the Florida Legisature have re-introduced a bill that would establish a protocol ...

Our public schools have a hard time dealing with autistic students mainstreamed into the general education classroom. I know this because I have a 12-year-old autistic son in sixth grade, and my wife ...

She asked if any of the third graders knew about autism, and a few hands popped up around the classroom. Then Kirsten Maloney asked if they knew anyone with autism. The same hands waved in the air.

As many of us might remember, school (K-12) was an intellectually laborious period of our lives; there was a great deal of information that needed to be encoded into our relatively young brains and, ...

Rutgers University is launching a new federally funded program to prepare the next generation of special education ...

The bills requires schools to create plans and assign personnel to address situations in which students with autism wander ...