KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Instagram post from March praised a Kansas City restaurant’s reaction to a mom and her young son. It has thousands of likes and hundreds of shares. The caption reads in part, ...

A new study found two recurring brain connectivity patterns in autism. One was linked to synapses and the other to immune ...

The rapid expansion of autism therapy for children has been driven by increased need, generous taxpayer-funded Medicaid ...

Despite the increasing awareness and understanding of ASD, "African-American and Latino children with autism are diagnosed at older ages than white children, giving them less of an opportunity for ...

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disability that impairs social communication or interaction and leads to narrow, restricted interests (fixation on certain topics or objects) and ...

Portrait of an adorable little boy wearing a suit and standing near a chalkboard with a colorful brain sketch. Concept of child's development A new study from The Society for Research in Child ...

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) sometimes occur together. While FXS is a known genetic cause of ASD, not everyone who receives an FXS diagnosis is autistic, and not all ...

A new autism diagnostic tool could enable earlier detection — and it’s as simple as going to the bathroom. The breakthrough ...