Somer Bishop is launching a revolution in autism diagnosis, creating faster, more precise tools that speed research and better capture the full spectrum of autism symptoms.

After a steady climb since 2000, the prevalence of autism among school-age children appears to have stalled at 1 in 68.

Terms such as ‘low-functioning’ often used to describe people with autism, are misleading and stigmatizing. Tracking people’s daily lives over time may offer a clearer picture of life with the condition.

Most children who have both autism and intellectual disability take their first steps on time or earlier than those with other conditions.

The combination of obesity and diabetes in a pregnant woman substantially increases the likelihood that her child will have autism.

People with an extra copy of the autism-linked chromosomal region 16p11.2 have a range of characteristics, suggesting that other genetic factors are at play.

Nearly half of siblings of children with autism have difficulties with attention, language, learning or mood.

About 1 in 45 children in the U.S. have autism, up 79 percent from the estimate for 2013. But there is more to the apparent jump in diagnoses than meets the eye.

Researchers have defined a new syndrome that results from carrying two mutated copies of CNTNAP2, a gene linked to autism.

An analysis of blood samples from nearly 17,000 individuals with autism points to new regions of the genome likely to be involved in the disorder.