Spectrum: Autism Research News

A panel of autism scientists and advocates is charged with a tall order: making recommendations for the care of autistic people worldwide.

The prevalence of autism among school-aged children in Qatar is higher than the worldwide average.

Restricted and repetitive behaviors decrease significantly in about 75 percent of autistic children from age 3 to 11.

Most 4-year-old autistic children cannot string more than two words together.

Researchers say they are unimpressed with a study that underpins a tech company’s new digital therapy for autism.

The gaze of children as young as 16 months old may help predict whether they have autism and reveal finer-grained details, such as their verbal and social abilities.

Boys and girls with autism get virtually identical scores on three commonly used diagnostic tests, suggesting that sex doesn’t affect the scores.

One of the leading theories of autism posits that girls and women are biologically protected from the condition.

The ‘extreme male brain’ theory suggests that autism is an exaggeration of systematic sex differences in ways of thinking.

Some autistic children’s communication and motor skills begin to decelerate between 9 and 18 months — years before the average age of diagnosis.