About one in four children with autism hit, scratch or otherwise hurt themselves, suggests an analysis of school and medical records for more than 8,000 children.

Parent, partner and professional — the need to fulfill all of these roles at once complicates Vanessa Bal’s life.

A half-hour-long ‘playdate’ between a toddler and an adult could help answer a long-standing question about the social deficits that accompany autism.

Adults with autism, particularly women, deliberately hurt themselves much more often than other adults do.