Admittedly, the spectrum is wide, and those with extreme forms of autism and their caregivers often contend with incredibly ...

There was some backlash to Mattel's newly introduced autistic Barbie. But one doll could never represent an entire community.

The Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club and teens from its Jepson program invite the community to lace up their running shoes and join for the 4th annual “Just Different, Not Less” Autism Run on ...

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

In an attempt to help 'more children to see themselves represented in Barbie,' toy creator Mattel Inc. is releasing their ...

Autistic Barbie has sparked both joy and unease among autistic adults as Mattel’s new doll lands in stores and online, ...

A new study found that non-autistic U.K. adults are less able to understand animations (representing specific words) ...

After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood before a crowd last week and called autism an “epidemic” and “disease” — a term the scientific community abandoned decades ago — ...

The first I learned about autism was as a kid told I had Asperger's. For a long time, what autism meant to me was not having friends, feeling misunderstood, and generally being a bit weird. When I ...