Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, is correct that reported autism rates have exploded in the ...

I was diagnosed with classic autism when I was 4. I found the word a terrifying place. In some ways, it’s still a frightening place for me. But I have reached a point where I am a professional ...

Classic autism is absolutely unmistakable. The onset is before the age of 3. Severity and disabilities are tragic and lifelong, and you cannot mistake classic autism for anything else.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines ...

Boys are nearly 4 times as likely to be diagnosed with autism as girls. Experts say girls often are misdiagnosed – or not diagnosed at all – because their symptoms are more subtle. Girls may ...

The same patient might be given a diagnosis of Asperger’s by one physician, but "classic autism" by another, said Alycia Halladay, a senior director with the group Autism Speaks, which has ...

There has been an "epidemic" of autism in the last fifteen years. This used to be a very rare condition diagnosed less than once in every two thousand kids. Now it is diagnosed once in a hundred.

Researchers interviewed him when he was 63 and found classic symptoms of autism. His chart, however, said he was schizophrenic and mentally retarded. Perrick died in 2009.

Although National Autism Awareness Month doesn't officially start until Monday, the campaign got a jump-start last week with the finding that autism spectrum disorders, or ASDs, affect 1 in 50 ...

About 1 in 88 children in the U.S. have one of the autistic spectrum disorders, which include classic autism and a milder form, Asperger syndrome. Dr. Melissa Nishawala, ...

John Hall will share his experiences and answer questions about autism this Saturday in Burbank for Autism Awareness Month. An autistic father, John Hall, deals with his son's diagnosis ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dr. Allen Frances, about his piece in the New York Times titled, "Autism Rates have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That." ...