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, ...

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 ...

Natasha Nelson, a 35-year-old entrepreneur in Stone Mountain, Georgia, didn’t have an innate sense of social norms. She didn’t know why people meeting for the first time would choose to engage in ...

What is the rate of autism among U.S. children? Among all U.S. 8-year-olds, 1 in 36 had autism in 2020. That's according to the most recent estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 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 ...