Irish parents are sending children to a clinic in Bulgaria for dangerous treatments that “cure” autism.

An autistic general election candidate and her autistic children have been targeted by vile online abuse which branded them “inbred mongolians”.

A touring health author who held a series of talks in Ireland last week has been accused of promoting banned substances that claim to prevent cancer.

I have Asperger’s Syndrome and two of my five wonderful children are also on the autism spectrum.

The Government is fully aware of abusive and unregulated so-called treatments for autism, but is doing nothing to stop them, writes Fiona O’Leary.