Common signs of autism include trouble with social communication and a fixation on certain routines or topics — Nelson says ...
What if autism is not becoming more common at all? What if the rise in diagnoses is a good thing? As a scientist with autism, I believe the rise in diagnoses is the result of greater awareness, better ...
Details of the proposed CDC study have not been formally announced, but the Washington Post said the agency plans to analyze ...
she said. (Ben Gray / The Associated Press) But to meet the diagnostic definition of autism, the symptoms must cause ...
Health and Human Services (HHS) officials led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently confirmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will investigate whether vaccines cause autism. The ...
The families of children with autism say mainstream education is damaging them. They talk to our Writer at Large ...
Former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter got it right almost 70 years ago: “A shocking crime puts law to its severest ...
Natasha Nelson, a 35-year-old entrepreneur in Stone Mountain, Georgia, didn’t have an innate sense of social norms. She didn’t know why people meeting for the first time would choose to engage in ...
The mother of a teenage boy with a severe and complex autistic spectrum disorder says there is not enough support for ...