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Artist Leironica Hawkins feels comfortable making eye contact with only some people.

Community mental health clinics, which serve millions of Americans, can help identify adults with undiagnosed autism — and change their lives for the better.

Women with autism value friendships as much as their neurotypical peers do, but they often have difficulty forming and maintaining them.

Assessing social ability in adults with autism requires controlled tests involving real-time social interactions. Virtual reality makes this possible.

Not all individuals with autism show signs of falling off a social cliff after high school; those who participated in organized sports and clubs fare the best.

The reasons some people with autism don’t make eye contact may differ between childhood and adulthood.

Studying the heterogeneity of autism features over time can help us understand why some children do better or worse than expected.

An innovative approach allows families with autism in India or Pakistan to practice communication strategies at home.

The idea that one residential model is appropriate for the entire spectrum of intellectual and developmental disability is patently absurd.

Understanding autism features in children who were deprived of social contact as infants could offer clues to the condition.