Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars today believe Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was probably on the autism spectrum. Bettmann/Getty Images U.S.

The head of an island charity supporting those with the condition says an early diagnosis is vital.

Taken together, these findings challenge a common misconception. Autistic individuals were not unwilling or unable to tailor ...

Autistic and non-autistic faces express emotion differently, and misunderstanding can go both ways. A new study suggests that ...

Dasgupta is the author of “Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins” and a professor of medicine at Boston University. President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise ...

People with autism have brains that are wired differently. This can make them especially strong in some areas-such as ...

There is no significant difference in the effectiveness of how autistic and non-autistic people communicate, according to a new study, challenging the stereotype that autistic people struggle to ...

Academics at Bournemouth University (BU) have been exploring the impact of menopause on autistic people and discovered that ...

The program helped responders learn how to recognize autism-related behaviors and prevent dangerous escalation during ...

Autistic and non-autistic people express emotions differently through their facial movements, according to a new study, which may help to explain why emotional expressions are sometimes misinterpreted ...

It quietly reinforces the idea that the more visibly sensory-sensitive someone appears, the “more autistic” they must be, that autism is best understood, and managed, through equipment, and that ...

Not everyone is happy with the new doll, but autistic people and advocates have reason to cheer.