Key points The CDC identified one in 44 children at age 8 in the U.S. with autism. As they reach adulthood, their parents struggle to help them cope. Adult children with ASD struggle to initiate ...

Like many young adults with autism, 17-year-old Tyler Bell will age out of government support when he turns 21. With that deadline approaching, Tyler's parents Peter and Liz Bell are preparing for ...

Parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder need to "keep an open mind," Blake said. "What's going to work for one adult with special needs might not work for the next.

A large-scale genetic analysis using data from 1 million people has identified 57 genomic loci linked to stuttering. The ...

While autism affects one per cent of the general population, it is more prevalent in men; and because of this, most studies have concentrated on male-dominant samples, leading to a gender bias in ...

Overall, the rate of autism in people 18 or older more than doubled between 2011 and 2019, from 4.2 per 1,000 to 9.5 per 1,000, according to an analysis of Medicaid data published in the journal ...

Politics Princeton families make $1.5M donation to Rutgers to study adult autism Published: Feb. 01, 2013, 6:55 p.m. By Susan K. Livio | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com ...