This 39-point visual map moves beyond ‘mild’ or ‘severe’ labels to reveal the true complexity of the autism spectrum. The official diagnosis of autism has undergone multiple reinterpretations and ...

Scientists are getting a step closer to understanding exactly how autism develops in the brain – and what might work to treat ...

When people hear the word autism, it’s often associated with a specific set of traits. But in reality, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is just that—a spectrum, encompassing a broad range of differences ...

A UVA researcher explains how a new tool could help scientists better understand the complex connections among children, ...

The number of recorded autism diagnoses has risen enormously. During the 1960s, about 4 in every 10,000 children in the United Kingdom were diagnosed. A large study involving more than 7 million ...

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In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, identified autism as a separate disorder from schizophrenia in young children. Kanner called his newly identified disorder early ...

Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to ...

There is a continuing row over whether it matters if such a broad spectrum of people are defined as having autism ...

Writer Temple Grandin arrives on the red carpet for the 68th annual Golden Globe awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California January 16, 2011. AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck (Photo credit ...

Professor Dame Uta Frith said social media could also be spreading ‘simplified or misleading ideas’ about autism ...

"Love on the Spectrum" star Kaelynn Partlow demonstrated "autistic joy," a deep, full-body euphoria often experienced by folks with ASD.