Few diagnoses have broadened their diagnostic boundaries as much or as quickly as autism. This has affected those with the ...

It’s been more than three years since the Lancet Commission proposed the new term “profound autism” to describe the subset of the autism spectrum most disabled by the disorder. This label has been ...

Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

The number of people diagnosed with autism will likely decrease if a new definition of the disorder is adopted by mental health experts later this year. Doctors aren't sure what the implications of ...

Fei, a mother of three, has two children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Her son Ben, 8, who also has weak core muscles attributed to autism, had received physical therapy (PT) since he ...

The proposed change to the newest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM5, would do away with the diagnoses of Asperger’s ...

COLUMBIA - Most parents fear hearing their child is autistic. But now parents may fear the opposite...that those who are autistic now, will not qualify under a new definition. The American Psychiatric ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines and linking them to... Autism rates have exploded. Could the definition be ...