Editor’s Note: Jennifer A. Pinto-Martin is the Viola MacInnes/Independence professor and chair of Biobehavioral Health Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. She is also the ...

A proposed new definition of autism could exclude many people now classified as having the disorder. The Times talked to Dr. Fred R. Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale School of ...

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.

(CBS)The definition of autism may soon be changing, according to a new report. The proposed revisions - which are "90 percent complete" - would dramatically change the current diagnostic criteria for ...

I first learned about autism in 1997 in my high school psychology course. It was relegated to a small paragraph in a chapter on childhood disorders. The film Rainman had come out a decade earlier, ...

Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, diagnosed in people with limited verbal language and highly repetitive behavior.

The author of a study that could result in a change to the definition of autism, one that could exclude many people from being diagnosed as autistic, now says more study is needed before the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted" - Frederick Douglass Each time I start a blog ...