Can One Barbie Represent a Spectrum? by James Coulter Barbie has been everything from a doctor to an astronaut. She's been many shades and skin colors. She's even been in a wheelchair. Now, her newest ...

A developmental disability, autism affects how people perceive the world and interact with others. Nicolette said her own son ...

The Minnesota Department of Human Services reports Star Autism Center LLC in St. Cloud closed amid a fraud allegation. Its ...

Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's ...

Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's ...

Since 2013, when the DSM-5 collapsed five autism subtypes into the single diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder (ASD)," we've treated autism like a monolith. Maybe that made sense when our tools were ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians should prioritize harm mitigation if prescribing leucovorin. The AAP requires results from at least ...

Autism diagnosed in early childhood differs genetically and developmentally from autism identified later in an individual’s development, challenging the notion that it is a single, uniform disorder, ...

People who learn they have autism after age 6 — the current median age at diagnosis — are often described as having a “milder” form of autism than people diagnosed as toddlers. A new study challenges ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House announcement about autism is expected Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump's weekend comment that "I think we found an answer" to the developmental disorder.

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...