Autistic children from low-income families are undercounted and underserved, a gap community leaders are working to bridge.

Place your autism center in the community you serve, remove barriers to care, cast a wide net for autism signs, and do as much as possible in the first visit: These principles can help build a lifelong relationship with the community.

Some autism traits look the same across cultures, and they could form the basis of a global screening tool.

Getting an autism diagnosis can be difficult for many adults, due to the dearth of reliable tests, high costs and bureaucracy.

Clinicians need to be able to distinguish autism from post-traumatic stress disorder so they can provide the right support.

About 1 in 40 children in the United States has autism, according to a survey conducted in 2016. Roughly 30 percent of those children were not being treated for the condition at the time.

Some autistic children don’t show traits of the condition until age 5 or later.

A lack of interest, training and pay may limit the supply of specialists best equipped to diagnose and treat children with autism.

Grunya Sukhareva characterized autism nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger. So why did the latter get all the credit?

Adding motor and sensory data boosts the accuracy of Research Domain Criteria — a broad research framework adopted by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health — for predicting autism.