Minimally verbal autistic preschoolers gained new words and phrases in a head-to-head comparison of two interventions.

These scores — composite measures of a person’s autism-linked common genetic variants — cannot predict an autism diagnosis but could help researchers better understand the condition’s underlying biology.

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, researchers upend early interventions and diagnostic boundaries.

Evidence of measurement bias undermines past claims about autistic children’s lower well-being.

Studies of behavioral treatments for autism are complex and can easily be misunderstood. Here we provide some guidance.

The two journals, although differing in initial support, both realized the need for a publication focused exclusively on the neurodiverse experience.

Time is running out to expose this disreputable push for profit over care and change insurance, funding and training practices for the better.

This edition takes aim at the autism-intervention evidence base with a slew of null results, plus findings that challenge a prevailing autism brain theory.

The field of ABA needs more compassion and individualization.

Interventions that moderate a need for ‘sameness’ may prevent anxiety traits.