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The Ontario, Canada, government recently announced its intentions to overhaul the Ontario Autism Program, but the changes could leave autistic children without supports.

Demand for measles vaccine has surged in the Washington county where the highly contagious virus is linked to more than 50 confirmed illnesses this year — including among people who had previously shunned the shots.

Some children who dramatically lose a range of abilities after age 2 may have a condition called childhood disintegrative disorder.

An analysis of spontaneous mutations in nearly 11,000 individuals with developmental delay or autism implicates 49 new genes.

A new advocacy group for people with severe autism taps into the deep divide in the community over who should speak for those on the spectrum.

As U.S. immigration enforcement becomes stricter under the Trump administration, more immigrant families are cutting ties with healthcare services and other critical government programs.

Links between sensory and motor brain networks may be unusually weak in individuals with autism.

The brains of rats exposed in utero to the seizure drug valproate show a significant increase in brain size around the time of birth.

Traits associated with autism and gender variance may co-occur even among typical children — a finding that may ease some of the skepticism about the overlap.

As the partial government shutdown in the U.S. enters its sixth week, some scientists are working without pay, and federal workers with autistic children are restoring to desperate measures.