For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

Autism therapy centers offer services like applied behavior analysis (ABA), in which positive reinforcement is used to help ...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes he would have been diagnosed as autistic if he were a child today. Gates made the revelation in an interview to promote his forthcoming book, ...

New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

Applied behavior analysis has become one of Medicaid’s fastest-growing costs, prompting cuts that families say threaten ...

Two new Arkansas programs aim to make traffic stops safer and more effective for people with autism and mental illness.The ...