Almost a decade ago the NHS launched its STOMP campaign to end the overmedication of people with learning disabilities and ...

Erica Encinas also allegedly smothered boy with trash bag, choked him with rosary and hit him over head with tile flooring ...

A father's instincts lead to the arrest of healthcare workers accused of abusing a non-verbal autistic patient in a San ...

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office says they are searching for one of the four suspects accused of abusing a 29-year-old ...

A series of arrests are being executed after an investigation uncovered alleged abuse of an autistic man living at a ...

A Plainfield woman was arrested in connection with the alleged abuse of an individual with autism who was under her care.

The failings of New Jersey’s $1.5 billion group home system are vast and heartbreaking. Reform bills fall short of a system ...

People with Williams Syndrome treat strangers as their new best friends. Now the condition is revealing clues to our ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified on May 14 before the House Appropriations and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and ...

Members of staff at the school have been subjected to “significant threats and abuse" since allegations emerged.

He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019 ... been charged with child abuse after police in Florida say she forcefully grabbed and dragged a 4-year-old boy with autism to the ground.

Kennedy Jr. has intensified his focus on autism in recent weeks ... “Historically, calling disabled people burdens or family destroyers has led to abuse, forced sterilization and even murder ...