All news on the topic: Autism

FedEx driver Tanner Horner, who kidnapped and killed seven-year-old Athena Strand, has been sentenced to death by lethal injection.

A teenager has been jailed for life after killing his mother with a hammer and boasting about the attack online.

A man who left a bag of wires and an iPad outside the US embassy in London for ‘graffiti art’ has been cleared of making a bomb hoax.

A young French boy who was left with life-threatening injuries after being thrown from the 10th floor of London’s Tate Modern has made a remarkable recovery — and is now able to run, jump, and swim again.

A high court judge has overturned a Home Office decision allowing a vulnerable autistic man to be extradited to the US on cybercrime charges that could result in a possible 52-year sentence.

In the autumn of 2020, Rhianan Rudd gouged a swastika into her forehead in a declaration of her love for Adolf Hitler.

Brooks cycled to Graeme Perks’ home while wearing camouflage gear and armed with a crowbar, petrol and matches before carrying out the attack in January 2021.

The BBC has been given rare access inside MI5’s headquarters in London to meet a senior intelligence officer who shares what it was like to discover he was neurodivergent.

A senior staff member at an independent school for children with special educational needs has been recorded by BBC Panorama saying how he wanted to drown a pupil in a bath “like a kitten”.

In the spring of 2024, the Russian Society of Psychiatrists proposed new clinical guidelines for the treatment of pediatric autism.

Bethany Amber Price, 23, from Merseyside died in October 2023 after her parents rushed her to hospital in what her dad says was the 'worst thing' he's ever been through

Having a neurodivergent child or sibling can be hard work but one woman has revealed how her family is furious with her because she refuses to allow her autistic brother to live with her

It's been almost two full weeks since 15-year-old Sebastian Rogers went missing from his Tennessee home. The desperate search has so far yielded no results as hope dwindles

Gogglebox star Tom Malone Jnr has created a dance project to help children with autism gain confidence as he recalls how the power of dance helped him following his autism diagnosis

Kerri Carter, 21, has autism and faced bullying throughout school over her condition. She began finding comfort in Disney films and enjoyed knowing that every story she watched would have a happy ending

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office used a high-tech thermal-imaging camera to locate the missing youngster.

Shanda Vander Ark, 44, and her son Paul Ferguson, 21, from Michigan, US, tortured Timothy, 15, with a nine hour ice bath before his death - they both retched during their trials

The Government has published a review into access to work for autistic people

Matthew Vincett's mum has said her boy was left 'traumatised' after being locked in the disabled toilet for between three and four minutes at a branch of the fast food giant

Christine McGuinness was diagnosed with autism three years ago after she found out children Penelope, Leo and Felicity all have the condition and now she is taking a spiritual step

A mother is torn between trying to preserve the peace between her and her husband and stopping his son from living at their address when he is released from jail

Former Real Housewives of Cheshire star Christine McGuinness has admitted she 'barely left the house' for eight years before being diagnosed with autism aged 33 back in 2021

Sebastian Nunney was aged just three when he was diagnosed with a rare cancer, after doctors dismissed his parents' fears - saying the little boy had "autism or an ear infection"

A mum was fed up with judgement from teachers who dubbed her son's school 'unhealthy' and came up with a powerful way to shut them up and help her child

Alfie Nicholls, who had autism, died at age seven after developing the undiagnosed eating disorder ARFID - now his mum now wants everyone to be aware of the condition and how to manage it