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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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.

An autism expert has shared seven often-missed signs of autism in girls, which differ significantly from the classic symptoms typically seen in boys.These signs include social camouflaging ...

Garrett was diagnosed with autism when he was 2, and Michelle Groogan began researching ways to ease her son's digestive issues, which she felt were autism-related. It wasn't long before she came ...

Mark Blakey, CEO of Autism Parenting Magazine said: “The classic autism checklist used by many doctors was developed based primarily on research with boys. "This has created a diagnostic blind ...