Restrictive, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities are also a symptom. Insistence on things staying the ...

So that ultimately autism does not define them, Mr. Thomson said, and they are seen as who they are, people with ideas, capacities and contributions to make. Autism is mainly characterized by its ...

What if autism is not becoming more common at all? What if the rise in diagnoses is a good thing? As a scientist with autism, ...

she said. (Ben Gray / The Associated Press) But to meet the diagnostic definition of autism, the symptoms must cause ...

Findings have the potential to improve diagnostic guidelines for autism by decreasing the focus on social factors- which the ...

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision ...

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

Before 1991, the federal government lumped children with autism in with other "intellectual disabilities." In 1994, the definition of autism included Asperger syndrome and children on the milder ...

But Begines, who is autistic, said he was determined to succeed. He didn’t want autism to define him. On Jan. 1, a special divisional board named him the 2025 Division 5 Young Marine of the Year ...