Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the clinical name for the condition most people refer to as autism. Autism is defined as "a complex developmental condition that affects communication, social ...

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

The runaway hit hockey romance gives us a different kind of autistic character, one created by an author and an actor with ...

An autistic meltdown is an intense reaction to sensory or emotional overload in autistic people. When an autistic person becomes overstimulated or unable to cope with their environment, they may ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the drug leucovorin to treat children with cerebral folate deficiency and symptoms of autism. Kevin Pelphrey is the Harrison-Wood ...

As autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders and because of the elusive pathophysiology ...