Novel autism treatment translates well to South Asian nations
An innovative approach allows families with autism in India or Pakistan to practice communication strategies at home.
Diagnosing autism is an evolving science but a crucial first step to understanding the disorder.
An innovative approach allows families with autism in India or Pakistan to practice communication strategies at home.
In the Strange Stories Film Task, people interpret scenes in a video for white lies, jokes and irony.
A massive new analysis drops the ratio of boys to girls who qualify for an autism diagnosis to about 3-to-1.
Understanding autism features in children who were deprived of social contact as infants could offer clues to the condition.
Most children with a rare autism-linked mutation develop baby teeth one to two years earlier than usual.
Parents in the United States tend to rate their children’s autism features as more severe than do parents in four other countries.
Autism looks similar in girls and boys, suggest results from a large study.
A minority of boys with autism have brains that are unusually large relative to their bodies — a trait tied to regression and intellectual disability.
Most children with autism go undiagnosed until after age 3, and many of these children remain undiagnosed until after they reach school age.
In children with a deletion on chromosome 22, having autism does not boost the risk of developing schizophrenia later in life.