Today (2 April) marks Autism Acceptance Day – a celebration of the more than 1% of the human population who are autistic. Originally known as ‘World Autism Awareness Day’, the autistic community has ...

These biases and shortcomings are the subject of “Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls,” a new book by brain imaging expert Gina Rippon. Rippon, professor ...

Damien Dalmayne, 17, is autistic. He also battles mental health issues that have left him unable to get out of bed and contemplating harming himself. Warning: This story contains references to ...

The signs of autism in adult males include a range of sensory, communication, and cognitive differences. The diagnostic criteria do not distinguish based on age or gender, although the symptoms ...

An autistic teenager is fighting for his life after Idaho police shot him a whopping nine times — prompting community-wide outrage and protests, according to authorities and reports. Police were ...

have vowed to tackle what they describe as a scourge threatening American children. The rise in autism has been precipitous: One in 36 children is affected today, up from four in 10,000 in the ...

Two of the defining clinical features of autism are marked impairment in social communication and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior. As an adult, the restricted ...

According to the National Autistic Society, more than one in 100 people are on the autistic spectrum in the UK. Yet despite being a common condition, it is still very misunderstood – which is ...

The vaccine has proven safe and effective and has been widely administered around the world for decades. But in 1998, a paper describing 12 children who received the MMR and later developed autism or ...

World Autism Day falls on April 2nd each year, and aims to raise awareness of autism, a neurodevelopmental condition that affects around 700,000 children and adults in the UK. Autism diagnoses have ...

‘I thought: I’m going to have to stay awake for the rest of my life,’ she remembers. Danny has autism and severe learning difficulties. The world can be a scary, uncertain, unstable place for parents ...