I do not have a disease. I did not become autistic because of a vaccine. I was born this way. I’m not broken, and I don’t need to be fixed. I want kids on the autism spectrum to be supported ...

While data from the CDC shows that around one in 36 children born in 2012 were diagnosed with autism, it is unclear where the ...

"I would welcome a high-quality systems biology level study of – it'd be tough to do it across the spectrum of autism, but I'll just use the word as a generalization – of autism. But design ...

ESCHER: Well, certainly, I think everybody in this field knew that those remarks didn't apply to the broad spectrum of autism, but they certainly do apply to a very significant subset of us.

Do they think we’re at risk of spreading it? These are questions that Kennedy does not answer. Kennedy’s reasoning for why there’s an “epidemic” is that the number of autism diagnoses ...

“He is stereotyping and failing to acknowledge the range here of what autism means, and many parents are terrified that what he's going to do is create discrimination against their ...

Ne’eman: “One thing we need to do is to change the autism research agenda. Historically, both public and private investment in autism research has focused overwhelmingly on biology ...

they compare the brain signals of infants whose older siblings have been diagnosed with autism to those whose siblings do not have the disorder. “You pick up brain activity while the baby is ...

What symptoms do boys exhibit that are key to experts? Autism is a social communication and sensory disability, and we need to understand that how we're socialized impacts how autism is expressed ...

The latest surveillance data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a steep rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), extending a years-long trend of ...

and so I do that in private.’ “ There’s also an overlap of symptoms between various disorders like ADHD and OCD that can complicate an autism diagnosis due to difficulties with nonverbal ...