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A flawed evaluation process may put programs serving a high proportion of children with autism at risk of funding cuts.

Software may complement traditional behavioral therapy for autism, but making programs engaging and effective is a challenge.

Grouping people with autism based on their unique brain-activity ‘fingerprints’ may help to identify subtypes of the condition.

People with autism already have access to experimental treatments; the new law could make that access more dangerous.

The instruments clinicians use to diagnose depression in people with autism cannot capture its unique presentation in this group.

Science teaches us that housing children in institution-like settings is likely to cause severe and permanent damage to their minds and bodies.

Referring children with developmental delay to a clinical geneticist for testing and counseling helps families and advances research.

Early features of other conditions may contribute to autism itself

A new strategy for diagnosing autism shortens the evaluation process — and the wait for answers.

A lack of training for first responders, combined with the communication difficulties of people with autism, can create dangerous misunderstandings.