The committee met for the first time since Kennedy fired most of the committee’s scientific experts and replaced them with ...

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 number of people diagnosed with autism will likely decrease if a new definition of the disorder is adopted by mental health experts later this year. Doctors aren't sure what the implications of ...

The 1930s and 1940s—The Battle to Define Autism After Bleuler coined the term autism, little happened to clarify what the condition consisted of. In the 1930s and 1940s the clinical definition of ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines and linking them to autism. Dozens of studies have debunked the theory, but ...

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid rising interest in the disorder across the country. Subscribe to our ...

DOT ORG. A NUMBER OF CHILDREN BEING DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM. IT’S GOING UP IN RECENT YEARS. KOAT U-N-M HEALTH EXPERT DOCTOR ASH IS HERE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHY DOCTORS AND FAMILIES ARE BETTER AT ...

Around the world, autism is far more common than most people realise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 36 children is diagnosed with autism. Now place that ...