Feeling abandoned and overwhelmed, families are turning to controversial new therapies backed by the US health secretary ...

Parents of autistic children have opened up about some of the common misconceptions people have about their kids – from believing girls don’t have autism, to suggesting they can’t be autistic because ...

OUR understanding of autism has come a long way, and increasingly, studies suggest there’s not one single type of the ...

Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, diagnosed in people with limited verbal language and highly repetitive behavior.

Neal and Samara Tricarico, holding the family dog, Kiwi, in a garden created as a memorial to their son Anthony ("Ant") in the front yard of their home in Cardiff-by-the-Sea. When Anthony Tricarico ...

Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.

The proposed change to the newest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM5, would do away with the diagnoses of Asperger’s ...