First developed by the psychiatrist Lorna Wing in the 1980s, the term was intended to reflect the wide range of autistic ...

Anyone can be autistic. You probably know a friend, family member, or co-worker who is autistic. Perhaps you are autistic yourself. Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people ...

Autism does not discriminate. It affects people of different races and ethnicities equally. But much of what scientists know about the genetics of autism comes from people of European descent, who ...

In the past five years, educators have seen a surge of college students diagnosed with autism and other neurological differences. In response, schools have adopted a variety of strategies to ...

If your child has been diagnosed, you might not know how to explain this to them in an age-appropriate way. Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou, Associate Professor at children’s mental health charity Anna Freud, ...

Allysia Finley’s column “What’s Behind the Rise in Autism Diagnoses” (Life Science, March 10) leaves out what may be the biggest culprit: the 2013 inclusion of Asperger syndrome in an “autism spectrum ...