Autism

The sheriff in Pinellas County has fired a decorated deputy who was recorded taunting an autistic student at the middle school where he provided...

Governor Rick Scott recently signed a bill into law requiring autism awareness training for Florida’s law enforcement officers. But, some may not see...

The Florida House has voted to expand autism awareness training for law enforcement. Support for the issue amped up this session after a North Miami...

A bill requiring autism awareness training for law enforcement officers is now heading to the House floor.

If you had medieval Legos as a kid, The Dragon at Legoland Florida Resort is the roller coaster incarnation. And it’s the biggest, baddest, still very...

Caught on cell phone videos and magnified by social media, law enforcement incidents dominate the news. Some Florida lawmakers are working on a host of...

How do young adults diagnosed with a form of autism describe themselves?This week on Florida Matters, we meet Andrew Casey, 23, who interviewed his peers…

You may have heard what scientists and researchers say about autism, but what about the folks who are diagnosed with it? This week on Florida Matters, we…

Instead of going to the experts to define autism we asked people who had been diagnosed with neurological disorder to explain it.“Autism is like being on…

The man who allegedly shot 20 first-graders, seven adults and himself last Friday supposedly had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of…