Sheltering in place is especially hard for autistic children who dread changes in routine and who may have learned to repress their ways of managing stress. Here are tips to help them cope.

Cut off from clients by the pandemic, clinicians are turning to video conferencing and other technologies to diagnose children with autism.

To help families cope with the sudden loss of professional support during the pandemic, one team in France has created a set of resources and information.

Most autistic people want to and can make friends, though their relationships often have a distinctive air.

Social distancing may pose special challenges for people with autism and their caregivers.

People with disabilities are at increased risk of medical and other complications from coronavirus infection. There is a lot that governments can do to help them.

Following a series of scandals in the United Kingdom over people with autism being held against their will and mistreated in hospitals, a watchdog group has issued a legal challenge to the government.

For many autistic adults, the golden years are tarnished by poor health, poverty and, in some cases, homelessness. Their plight reveals huge gaps in care.

Too few students with autism or intellectual disabilities have sex education. That omission may prevent them from forming fulfilling romantic relationships, and it may make them targets of abuse.

Society for Neuroscience members are demanding sharp cuts to the carbon footprint of its annual meeting.