When I first heard someone suggest teaching kids to “pretend they’re wearing a cape,” I thought it was going to be one of those cutesy parenting tips that sounds adorable but does absolutely nothing.

They are not disembodied automatons, they are real people working under highly stressful conditions. While what your supervisor did sounds awful, I would need a ruling from an employment law ...

For decades, autism has been primarily associated with children, but some research shows adults are discovering they’re on the spectrum, often after years of misdiagnosis or confusion. A therapist ...

Molly Siobhan Parker says that sensitivity to sound and issues with communication are amongst her autistic traits [BBC] Molly Siobhan Parker is on a quest to dispel myths around autism - especially ...

As a proudly Autistic person, I can say that, rightfully, there has been much ridicule and outrage among decent and thoughtful people about President Trump’s recent press conference on Autism.

A researcher can’t ask for much more than to hear they’ve won a $4.25 million federal grant. But with a national microscope trained on the Trump administration’s controversial autism agenda, Dr. Katie ...

Families of some of the most vulnerable Arizona residents are set to lose government services they consider essential starting Oct. 1. But state leaders say there’s simply not enough money to pay for ...

Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus on the disorder has opened the way for them to argue their cause.

Some families say they remain frustrated at the overwhelming attention on causes of autism rather than on systems and supports to help kids today.

A couple of years ago, during a UNICEF partnership visit to Minnesota, speech therapist Armenuhi Avagyan witnessed a moment that would change her life. “At a community center, I saw a guy in a ...

A clinical trial of 42 intellectually capable individuals with autism spectrum disorder found that participants tolerated the drug memantine well and showed significant improvements in social function ...

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 ...