THE current BBC drama The A Word has highlighted the difficulties families with a child living with autism face on a daily basis. One of the most common developmental disabilities in Northern Ireland, ...

Children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) engage in less physical activity than their peers, a University of Toronto study has found. The research, published recently in Autism, examined ...

One of the most complicated behaviors humans and animals can perform is social behavior, which takes place between conspecifics and results in social relationships. Social behavior is based on the ...

Even as a practitioner who works with autistic women, and as an autistic woman myself, understanding what exactly autism spectrum disorder is can be difficult. We tend to think of spectrums in terms ...

More than 70 genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental condition in which differences in the brain lead to a host of altered behaviors, including issues with language, ...

This chart was first published in one of CT Mirror's stories. To read the full story, click on the first link listed at the bottom of the page. Autism behavioral services are broken down into several ...

Children and teens with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are much more likely to express a wish to be the opposite ...