Diagnosing autism is an evolving science but a crucial first step to understanding the disorder.
Providing training for primary-care clinicians and for families can go a long way to lowering the average age of autism diagnosis and helping children get the services they need.
Girls with autism are diagnosed 1.5 years later, on average, than boys with the condition, perhaps because they tend to have stronger verbal skills.
A new jumpsuit is fitted with sensors that can track and classify an infant’s posture and movements.
New data challenge the idea that parents of autistic children refrain from having more children.
Developmental pediatrician Watfa Al-Mamari is building an autism program in Oman from the ground up.
A new study has found that 0.2 percent of children in Oman are on the autism spectrum — an estimate about 15 times higher than the previous one.
Some scientists say an immune condition called PANDAS affects as many as 1 in 200 children who have traits similar to those of autism. But many experts contest that figure — and even the condition’s very existence.
This year’s hot topics in autism research center around brain organoids, heart rate, the gut microbiome, treatment timing and early detection.
Here are seven Spectrum stories from this year that deserve a close look.
The first rigorous estimate of autism in Catalonia, Spain, has found a prevalence on par with that in the United States; an independent study in Iran, meanwhile, has found a prevalence that lags far behind.
