It’s been more than three years since the Lancet Commission proposed the new term “profound autism” to describe the subset of the autism spectrum most disabled by the disorder. This label has been ...

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.

Judith Warner is the author of And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School. The proposed change to the newest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and ...

Autism should not be considered a “spectrum”, according to one of the architects of the theory. Dame Uta Frith, a pioneer of ...

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci, Copyright ...

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 ...

Recent research suggests rates of the condition in both sexes may be equal – so why have so few women been diagnosed in the ...

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference last week at his Mar-a-Lago club.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. President-elect Donald Trump seemed to ...