In the earliest part of the twentieth century, the scant attention paid to child mental health reflected a medical interest ...

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid ...

Two Nobel Laureates join Founder Prof. Haitham Amal, leading global autism researcher Critical unmet need: 1 in 31 U.S. children now affected, zero FDA-approved disease-modifying ...

The new doll carries a pink fidget spinner that actually spins, wears pink noise-cancelling headphones to reduce sensory overload and holds a pink tablet that represents her augmentative and ...

Delayed onset of canonical babbling and first words is often reported in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Identifying the neural mechanisms underlying language acquisition ...

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Childhood immunizations are essential for protecting against infectious diseases, disability and death. With ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...

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Joshua Anbar receives funding from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. He is member of the Self-Advocate Advisory Board at the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC), where ...

Clinicians and researchers continue to address unproven and debunked claims about the origins of autism — most notably that vaccines and prenatal acetaminophen use may increase the risk for the ...