BUFFALO, N.Y. – Several years ago Helen McCabe was studying in China when she met Zhang Ge, an 8-year-old autistic girl who couldn't carry on a conversation and had limited self-care skills. McCabe ...

Linda Yoon used to spend her time daydreaming in her Korean first-grade classroom. With her chin propped on her hands, she imagined cartoon characters and scenarios as she looked outside the window, ...

When Helen Hoang began writing her debut novel, she initially did so because of her love for romance novels. But soon, it became a way for her to process her own autism diagnosis. Subscribe to read ...

Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization, is a sponsor of the first-ever International Autism Conference (IAC) in Manila, Philippines. The conference, reaching out ...

Neurodiversity is a term (and a movement) predicated on the idea that autism and other developmental or learning conditions are differences to be embraced rather than diseases to be cured. The ...

It’s 25 years since the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) was published. The manual is the clinical “bible” that defines the criteria for the diagnosis of psychiatric ...