WASHINGTON — For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find ...

T.F. Green recently hosted Autism Flies to let families with kids on the autism spectrum practice boarding a plane.

Broad autism phenotype (BAP) describes a set of observable traits or characteristics that align with autism spectrum disorder ...

Carving up the spectrum allows for more targeted research and interventions. But that only works if everyone does it the same ...

Families often come to me with concerns about their child’s behavior and development in the first few years of life. Parents ...

Getting a timely diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is a major challenge, but new research shows that how young adults, and potentially children, grasp objects could offer a simpler way to diagnose ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

Professors Shanon Taylor and Lindsay Diamond debunk common beliefs about autism, promoting a better understanding of ...

RFK Jr. promised to ‘pull back the curtain’ on autism. Scientists are sceptical - The link between genes and autism dates ...

A UNLV-led study found that a gene that causes myotonic dystrophy also causes autism spectrum disorder. It could help with ...

The latest surveillance data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a steep rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), extending a years-long trend of ...