For parent warriors living with children within spectrum, the narrative could be interesting, intriguing and even more challenging ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...

We’re not going to find a smoking gun that is going to explain the incidence of autism. And it’s certainly not going to be ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled his first Make America Healthy Again commission report, which calls on the federal government to confront the root causes of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

Despite many medical consultations, his diagnoses included pervasive developmental disorder and acute stress disorder, but did not address what she saw as signs of ASPD, which cannot be diagnosed ...

Her son, Adam Martin, 11, has an autism spectrum disorder known as pervasive developmental disorder-- not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS). Her other son, Mark Martin, 9, is developing typically.

Despite being four times as likely to experience mental health conditions as peers, provision for children in care is ...

The TRICARE Comprehensive Autism Care Demonstration covers applied behavior analysis services. Under the ACD, ABA services ...

The U.S. federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several debated claims about autism prevalence, including ...

Autism has come full circle; from perceptions of the disability as lifelong, to beliefs of “growing out of it” and back again, all shaping how we support autistic individuals.

All the students in the class at the Small Fish Big Fish swim school in Florida have autism, a developmental disorder linked to a higher-than-average danger of drowning. (AP video: Daniel Kozin ...