The suit was filed weeks after Steven Harrison pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the 27-year-old woman with severe autism.

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

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

The new tests for autism are not yet reliable enough to be offered commercially. None of the tests has gone through large ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. flu infections showed signs of a slight decline last week, but health officials say it’s not clear that ...

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

The teen who did not pull the trigger of the compound bow that killed his autistic friend last February, but who conspired to ...

Graham Dale repeatedly laughed at, ridiculed, swore at and direct disablist comments towards the resident, known only as ‘AA, ...

The new analysis study showed the delay may stem from genetic mutations that are present when a child is born – but activate ...