Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SELF spoke with researchers, clinicians, and advocates to understand the uptick in diagnoses of autism in adult women—plus, what ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is widely understood as a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how individuals communicate, behave, and interact with the world. Yet, when it comes to girls, autism ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House announcement about autism is expected Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump’s weekend comment that “I think we found an answer” to the developmental disorder.

UCR education professor Katherine Meltzoff develops a set of telehealth tools that help clinicians diagnose autism remotely, ...

New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that autism should not be understood as a homogeneous condition with a single cause. Scientists found that people diagnosed in early childhood ...

MONTREAL — New Montreal-based research has put forth a model that might explain how autism develops in the brain. According to the “Trigger-Threshold-Target” model, autism spectrum disorders develop ...

While some people feel moments of loneliness or social anxiety from time to time, investigative reporter Christina Buttons ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than half of the apparent increase in childhood autism cases in Denmark between 1980 and 2011 may be due to changes in how those cases are reported, according to a new ...