Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus ...

Some families say they remain frustrated at the overwhelming attention on causes of autism rather than on systems and supports to help kids today.

Those who are close to someone with autism have been beside themselves the last few days. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our country’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for ...

A restaurant owner has found support online after detailing the reasons she ejected a woman and her autistic son from the establishment. The CDC says that an estimated 1 in every 31 children in the ...

New research links the disorder to abnormal brain development. Nov. 8, 2011— -- A new, small study provides a tantalizing clue to the causes of autism, suggesting that children with the disorder ...

An off-label prescription drug has been shown to help some non-verbal children with autism discover the ability to speak. The drug, leucovorin, is a prescription vitamin that functions similarly to ...