Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists about for years. Kennedy ...

Severe autism, or level 3 autism spectrum disorder, describes individuals with the highest support needs on the autism spectrum. People with level 3 autism often show challenges in communication and ...

A new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders suggests that the ability to comprehend complex ...

I don’t begrudge Bill Gates’s musings that he would have been put on the autism spectrum if he were a child today. Yet as a parent of a young adult who is nonverbal with severe autism, I’d like to ...

April is fast approaching, and the posts have already started ramping up celebrating “Autism Awareness,” or the more trendy “Autism Acceptance.” At the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA), we ...

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

“Did you grab the diaper bag?” my husband asked, as we pulled out of the driveway. “Yes,” I responded, racing one final time through a mental checklist of everything that Abraham, our 9-year-old son, ...

CORRECTION: A previous version of this post stated incorrectly that the teacher leading one of Conrad high’s autism units, Aimee Kelly, had been fired for alleged misconduct toward a student. She has ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a news conference on April 22. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted ...