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

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

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

A new study found that non-autistic U.K. adults are less able to understand animations (representing specific words) ...

SAN ANTONIO – Psychology researcher Ashlee Flanagan set to explore the relationship between black autistic youth and police officers. Flanagan took into account the misinterpretations of autistic ...

Autism likely has deep genetic roots, but the latest research provides hope that some learning techniques can lessen symptoms of the developmental disorder. In children with the mildest cases of ...

FARGO, N.D. — When a 13-year-old Minnesota boy was banned from church after parishioners complained about his behavior, it exposed a painful truth so politically incorrect that some people feel guilty ...

Two new Arkansas programs aim to make traffic stops safer and more effective for people with autism and mental illness.The ...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes he would have been diagnosed as autistic if he were a child today. Gates made the revelation in an interview to promote his forthcoming book, ...

Autism therapy centers offer services like applied behavior analysis (ABA), in which positive reinforcement is used to help ...

A major new review has put hundreds of alternative autism treatments under the microscope—and most didn’t hold up. Scientists ...