Each autistic person is diagnosed as Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3, with Level 3 requiring the most support. Autism affects how a person acts, experiences the world, and expresses themselves. While ...

Kennedy has repeatedly mischaracterized autistic people by falsely claiming autism is caused by vaccines while attacking life-saving medications like antidepressants, insisting that instead force ...

She found small talk difficult, and couldn’t understand why people ... re autistic," Westover said. "It goes a little bit deeper than that.” Russell Lehmann, 34, has lived with his autism ...

A new article in Autism and Adulthood presents guidelines for designing consent materials and procedures for autistic adults and people with intellectual disability and asserts that participatory ...

The Australian Greens have today launched a plan to add ADHD and autism assessments to Medicare, in a bid to save people seeking a diagnosis thousands in out-of-pocket costs.

What is autism? Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people learn ... the director of advocacy at Autistic Self Advocacy Network, previously ...

As a kid, I was told I had Asperger's syndrome (as an adult, that diagnosis was updated to autism ... and a majority of people were autistic. What would it be like if, in such a state, as ...

While leucovorin isn’t prescribed for the treatment of autism ... autistic community," he told Fox News Digital. "While some small studies have explored leucovorin as a potential treatment for ...

Having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) alongside an autism diagnosis was also linked to worse health outcomes overall for adults, the study found. “Generally speaking, rates of ADHD ...