A Saint John mother says she felt pressured by teachers and school administrators to double her autistic son's Ritalin dose to keep him in school.

Canadian researchers have carried out the first study of a play-based therapy program that has had some remarkable success in drawing some autistic children out of their solitary worlds. The CBC's Ioanna Roumeliotis offers a moving look inside floortime therapy.

A new book tells the story of an autistic Toronto teenager who was born without the ability to speak out loud, who lived for years having her voice unknown to the world until she began to convey her thoughts through a computer.