Diagnosing autism is an evolving science but a crucial first step to understanding the disorder.
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 children diagnosed with autism by age 2 show unusual responses to sights, sounds and textures as infants.
Some autistic children don’t show traits of the condition until age 5 or later.
Autism and schizophrenia co-occur significantly more often than would be expected by chance, according to an analysis of nearly 2 million people.
A lack of interest, training and pay may limit the supply of specialists best equipped to diagnose and treat children with autism.
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.
The rising prevalence of autism is not leveling off, according to a new study that accounts for every diagnosis made in Denmark over 32 years.
New and improved autism screens and diagnostic tools promise to streamline the long path to an autism diagnosis.
A recalibrated version of a widely used test for autism may accurately reflect autistic children’s development as they grow and become verbal.
Two novel algorithms that analyze where a child looks as she views a video could help clinicians spot autism.
