This edition plots school suspensions and the unemployment gap for autistic people, and charts outcomes for those who attend regular health checks.

A deactivated form of the gene editor restores UBE3A expression in mice and human neurons without cutting the genome. It may hold promise for future Angelman gene therapies.

Increased white-matter maturation tracks with stronger language abilities later in childhood, but the relationship with cortical thickness is less clear.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the first repository of vocalizations from minimally verbal autistic people. Those with few or no spoken words still produce a range of phonemes, or units of sound, that may serve as developmental markers or intervention targets.

The findings contradict a previous study, whose design may have been biased to find an effect.

The gene, YTHDF2, may be one of several that contribute to an autism subtype marked by an unusually big brain.

The co-occurring conditions may stem from the heightened stress people in minority communities experience.

We are covering the talks in Austin, Texas, this week, plus what the research community is talking about online, in the Lone Star Ballroom and around town.

Implicit biases might be to blame, and the discrepancy persists across clinics, regardless of maternal education, family income and a child’s IQ score.

Our editorial team also took home seven regional awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.