Science & Society

Autistic children and adults report having poor physical and mental health and quality of life compared with the general population.

The National Institutes of Health is offering autism researchers who are coping with the coronavirus pandemic flexibility with their grant applications, budgets and progress reports.

Social distancing may pose special challenges for people with autism and their caregivers.

‘Autistic burnout’ is the intense physical, mental or emotional exhaustion, often accompanied by a loss of skills, that some adults with autism experience.

As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts researchers’ working lives, the academic journals that publish their work are adjusting too.

Following a series of scandals in the United Kingdom over people with autism being held against their will and mistreated in hospitals, a watchdog group has issued a legal challenge to the government.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 16 March.