Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Obstetrician Jeanne Conry has long paid attention to the “1,300-day window”- the months before conception through a child’s second ...

A new UC San Diego study looks to offer an explanation of how certain genetic predispositions combined with environmental exposures can lead to autism spectrum disorders. Researchers believe their ...

Donald Trump has a long-held fascination with autism, and particularly the various conspiracy theories that have surrounded this complex developmental condition since the 1990s. Last night, the US ...

Since 2013, when the DSM-5 collapsed five autism subtypes into the single diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder (ASD)," we've treated autism like a monolith. Maybe that made sense when our tools were ...

Kennedy and other health officials held a “celebration and workout” for Autism Awareness Day on Thursday to highlight the ...

The absence of reliable data on children with autism in Pakistan has created serious challenges for policymaking at the government level, while a rapid increase in autism cases has also been revealed.

Autism affects 1 in 36 children globally, yet many cases in India go undiagnosed. From early signs parents miss to what the ...

For many families, an autism diagnosis is the gateway to critical early support such as speech therapy, occupational therapy and applied behavior analysis. That diagnosis is guided by criteria from ...

Is your child showing signs of autism - a neurodevelopmental condition affecting how people communicate, interact, and ...