Does your kid have questions about autism? Experts suggest using conscious language and exploring autism-affirming resources ...

Molly Siobhan Parker is on a quest to dispel myths around autism - especially autistic women. She was diagnosed at the age of ...

More than one in 100 people are believed to be autistic. Here we look at what it is, how it is medically diagnosed and how it can make people feel.

Since diagnostic criteria for autism was established based on men, autism can be especially difficult to identify in women.

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.

The simple idea of an empathy deficit in autism is false. Recent research reveals that at least one type of empathy is associated with autistic traits. Further, processes that co-occur with ...

The phrases “autism spectrum” or “on the spectrum” have become part of everyday language. They are often used as different ways of referring to someone who is “neurodivergent.” The term was coined in ...

The phrases “autism spectrum” or “on the spectrum” have become "part of everyday language" since the phrase was coined in the 1980s by psychiatrist Dr Lorna Wing, whose work transformed how autism was ...

Joshua was 15 when he triggered one of WA's most significant public health data breaches. His story highlights the challenges ...

Last week President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States’ secretary of health and human services, held a press conference during which they linked use of the common pain reliever ...

While the exact numbers are hard to come by, estimates of unemployment among the autistic population range from 70 to 85 percent. There’s little doubt that autistic people are the most unemployed, ...

A missing Houston teen with autism remains in immigration custody and is set for appendix removal. His mother doesn't know ...