The condition that became known as autism was described before the Tylenol brand was created. Autism's history dates back further than the drug's.

Two autistic Long Island children were able to stroll off their schools’ grounds unnoticed fewer than 48 hours apart last week — and one of them ended up killed while walking along a busy highway. The ...

A new NYPD sketch depicts the 11-year-old autistic boy reported missing from his Brooklyn apartment – and whose mother has ...

The Trump administration announced on Monday, Sept. 22, that it had found the "answer to autism" – a claim that's evoked strong reactions from across the political spectrum. Health and Human Services ...

A quick-thinking deputy and a brave big brother helped save a missing 5-year-old nonverbal girl who wandered into a Florida ...

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.

A local immigrant rights group is stepping in to help a Houston mother after her 15-year-old autistic son, who had been ...

Tensions erupted at City Hall on Wednesday when immigrant rights advocate Cesar Espinosa, Co Founder and Executive Director ...

For Jacqui Rullis, watching her 12-year-old autistic son Blake Ramage navigate airports has been one of the family’s greatest ...

Claire Button, 36, killed her five-year-old son Lincoln and left a note that said "he does not fit in the world and where he ...