As U.S. immigration enforcement becomes stricter under the Trump administration, more immigrant families are cutting ties with healthcare services and other critical government programs.

For students and early-career investigators, opportunities to meet and talk with the people they are trying to help underscores why the work matters.

As the partial government shutdown in the U.S. enters its sixth week, some scientists are working without pay, and federal workers with autistic children are restoring to desperate measures.

Each year, dozens of families in Illinois give up custody of their children to help them get mental-health services.

After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017.

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.

Austria must train more autism specialists, expand its research funding and build more centers for autism diagnosis and treatment.

The network of researchers keeping tabs on autism prevalence in U.S. children plans to follow up with some of those children in adolescence.

Autistic children in the United Kingdom are increasingly being suspended or expelled from school because of ‘behavioral problems,’ official figures show.

Telling coworkers you are autistic can bring acceptance, but it may also hinder advancement.