April is National Autism Awareness Month, so we’ll honor this recognition by taking time to understand what it means to be on the autism spectrum. Autism spectrum disorder is a diagnostic category ...

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid ...

In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, identified autism as a separate disorder from schizophrenia in young children. Kanner called his newly identified disorder early ...

A study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders shows physicians can use telemedicine to assess and diagnose autism spectrum disorders in young children. For the study, ...

When people hear the word autism, it’s often associated with a specific set of traits. But in reality, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is just that—a spectrum, encompassing a broad range of differences ...

Using a new training model, primary care providers improved their confidence to make more in-house diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, keeping patients off of lengthy specialty clinic wait lists.

April is National Autism Acceptance Month. It is a month set aside to celebrate the contributions and diversity within the community made up of individuals on the autism spectrum. Asia Bailey of Glen ...