For a long time, autism was seen as something that only showed up in boys—and only in childhood. But for thousands of women, the story is different. Quietly, painfully different. They spend decades ...

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Autism affects an estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children. Their water safety has gotten occasional public attention after tragedies such as the death of Avonte Oquendo, an autistic teen who was found in a ...

Some studies have shown that children with autism are more at risk of drowning. Swimming instruction can help, but classes ...

Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that two major federal agencies within the department would build a data system to research autism spectrum disorder. Kennedy said the National Institutes of ...

TV experiment and the Ben Affleck mercenary thriller are changing the conversation around a much-discussed and ...

Neurodivergent creators in India are baking, painting and using social media to push back against stereotypes and change ...

Ackom, who has autism, released his first published comic book “Emmett U.S. Marshall.” “This is a lifetime dream of mine to have my own comic book out there,” Ackom said. “Being autistic ...

This casual phrase might seem harmless but it misunderstands what autism really is and can do real harm to autistic people.

(Image courtesy of Intuition Robotics) A large-scale longitudinal study published in The Gerontologist has found that autism spectrum traits do not affect how spatial working memory declines with ...

Autism isn’t considered a disease. It’s a complex brain disorder better known as autism spectrum disorder, to reflect that it affects different people in different ways. Symptoms vary widely. For some ...

What autism spectrum disorder (ASD) looks like can vary greatly between individuals, as well as between groups of people – girls' symptoms often differ from boys', for example. But as a young ...