A proposed new definition of autism could exclude many people now classified as having the disorder. The Times talked to Dr. Fred R. Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale School of ...

Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.

The 1930s and 1940s—The Battle to Define Autism After Bleuler coined the term autism, little happened to clarify what the condition consisted of. In the 1930s and 1940s the clinical definition of ...

Experts estimate that 1 percent of the population of children in the U.S. ages 3-17 have an autism spectrum disorder. Autism occurs in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, and is more likely ...

The definition of autism is getting increasingly broader. As a result, we are building a new reality of the disorder that doesn’t accurately represent the most affected population. I first learned ...

Fei, a mother of three, has two children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Her son Ben, 8, who also has weak core muscles attributed to autism, had received physical therapy (PT) since he ...

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump ...

The number of children diagnosed with autism has skyrocketed over the last decade, with roughly one in 110 children said to have the condition. But that could change soon. The manual that doctors use ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been, for just over a decade, the convergence of a wide array of neurodivergences, but the process of trying to firmly define the signs and traits has gone on much ...