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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...