There is no significant difference in the effectiveness of how autistic and non-autistic people communicate, according to a new study, challenging the stereotype that autistic people struggle to ...

Kennedy will make his first appearance as health secretary before Cassidy’s powerful Senate health committee on Wednesday.

The Fort Worth Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing teenage girl who has autism.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying before two congressional ...

Those of us who are professionals in the field did a collective eye roll,” one expert said of RFK’s recent statements.

The report's findings made national headlines: one in 31 children is now being diagnosed with autism by age eight.

Sarah Short told Newsweek: "I did not realize how huge the difference was, not only in my voice but in my mannerisms, until actually making the video." ...

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

Speaking on BBC Radio 4′s Autism Curve this month, Francesca Happé, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at King’s College ...

Regulators seeking to end the use of electric shock devices on people with disabilities have been swept into the government ...

When autism spectrum disorder is conceptualized and discussed in the literature, it is often focused on children who have ...