McNally Jackson,” one novelist said, “conveys prestige better than anyone else.” McNally’s is a thumb on the scale of ...

They painted [me ... Autism—could begin graduate studies. Natalia stayed behind in an apartment they had rented in Lafayette, Ind. Michael described a litany of services that were in a two-block ...

She’d run outside to watch them fly to the end of her block, where they would drop pesticides like ... Nearly everyone here works in the fields and speaks Spanish. Locals estimate at least 70 percent ...

The nation’s largest autism advocacy group is shuttering part of its organization. Autism Speaks will close Autism Speaks Canada at the end of this month, the nonprofit said. “After almost 20 years of ...

So I realized, wow, there's a bit of a pattern match there," he continued. According to the non-profit Autism Speaks, autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), "refers to a broad range of ...

The autism diagnosis is becoming more common. Autism Speaks, an advocacy group, pointed to a study last November in JAMA Network Open that found the number of children and adults diagnosed with ...

"Being autistic does not give people a free pass to insult others and make them feel ashamed of who they are." ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said vaccines are not safe. His support for abortion access has made conservatives uncomfortable.

A former Clayton principal also testified that Ronald Johnson, on trial for extortion, tried to have students with special needs reassigned in an apparent act of retaliation.

The unsatisfying answer to this question is that scientists still don’t fully grasp what leads to autism. Rather than a single gene or lifestyle trend, autism is the result of complex ...

Health providers use a handbook called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to diagnose mental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Until 2013 ...

The mystery of autism has long enthralled both scientists and individuals. Over time, researchers have proposed various theories of the condition from the diametric mind to the extreme male brain ...