Caring for children with autism who demonstrate self-injurious or aggressive behaviors often poses a number of serious challenges to parents and educators. Several different psychotropic medications ...

"If you don't listen to me, I won't invite you to my birthday party!" or "If you don't share your tiffin, I won't work on the project with you." It has become quite common these days to hear ...

Many parents and caregivers struggle to manage aggressive behavior in children. These are the situations that can deteriorate quickly, particularly in schools with zero-tolerance policies around ...

How does a mother explain how her preschooler remembers every detail of an episode of Doc McStuffins, but can’t for the life of her recall where the puzzles go at clean-up time? What’s really going on ...

At least 1 in 20 families struggles with an aggressive child. Such children and their families need and should be offered evidence-based treatments. When these families get ineffective therapies—or no ...

When parents of autistic adults die, responsibility for care often falls to a brother or sister. That handover is one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests that children whose mothers smoked weed during pregnancy are more likely to exhibit aggressive behaviour.

A number of news media reports have detailed physical or even sexual assaults by children with autism or intellectual disabilities. In some cases, the victims have suffered serious head injuries. At ...