Within a matter of seconds, your child slips from your watchful eye and wanders away. Soon, he or she is nowhere to be found.more For any parent, few things strike more fear than a missing child. But ...

Scientists have produced evidence that self-awareness is a big problem for people with autism. Sophisticated scans showed the brains of people with autism are less active when engaged in ...

Young children with autism tend to look less at faces and more at background details than their peers do, but taking objects ...

For those who have gone through it, know the ordeal: the path to an autism diagnosis often stretches on for months or years.

Autism is characterized in part by an individual's challenges communicating and interacting socially with others. These difficulties have typically been studied in isolation by focusing on cognitive ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), commonly referred to as autism, is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in how people interact or communicate with others, as well as restricted interests and repetitive patterns ...

Autism is not an illness that needs to be cured. It is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how a person communicates, ...