Former Morbid Angel drummer shares life-changing clarity after ADOS-2 evaluation, bringing peace and understanding to decades-long challenges. "After many years of confusion and misdiagnosis, I've ...

If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism. You want to find an assessment provider who recognizes the diversity of the autistic experience.

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ATLANTA — The Marcus Autism Center announced it will conduct the largest study of behavior, brain and genomic biomarkers in children across the autism spectrum following a $21.9 million grant from the ...

A new study tracking more than 2.7 million people in Sweden across 35 years challenges long-held assumptions that autism is a predominantly a male condition, and raises concerns that autistic females ...

You might have heard that autism diagnoses are on the rise in the UK. Some even argue it’s being “overdiagnosed”. But the National Autistic Society says that about 750,000 autistic adults in the UK ...

Harvard Medical School instructor Sylvia P. Fogel was named chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee last week, taking on leadership amid a renewed — and controversial — national ...

Children with mild autism will not need a medical diagnosis to access services under the federal government’s Thriving Kids program, but there will be more emphasis on parents and teachers providing ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, boys are about three times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than girls are. Scientists have sought an answer as to why that ...

For decades researchers have thought of autism as a predominantly male disorder but experts now say it may affect as many girls as it does boys. The prevalence of the spectrum disorder has increased ...