April is Autism Awareness Month. It’s a time each year dedicated to promoting understanding, acceptance, and advocacy for ...

Abstract: Tactile hyposensitivity, a sensory processing disorder characterized by the inability to differentiate tactile stimuli, frequently affects people with autism. However, despite the prevalence ...

There is a general attitude people have when they don’t understand something or a community. Instead of taking the time to ...

Autistic children are denied the simplest joys of childhood as society and public spaces remain rigidly designed for the ...

Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism ...

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. autism advisory board remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to include vaccine skeptics aims to steer federal research spending toward investigating ...

March 3 (Reuters) - Autism researchers and advocacy leaders on Tuesday said they would form a new, independent committee to help guide autism research priorities, providing a science-based alternative ...

A group of prominent scientists launched an independent autism advisory panel Tuesday over fears that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has politicized the key federal autism advisory board he ...

New research challenged the longstanding belief that autism is much more common in males versus females. In a Swedish study of 2.7 million people, male-to-female ratios in autism diagnoses were nearly ...

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen any studies supporting the theory that any vaccines cause autism, a break ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...