WASHINGTON — People with Asperger syndrome, a mild form of autism, dramatically improve their social learning skills and spend more time gazing at pictures of faces after inhaling a whiff of the ...

When most people hear the word “spectrum”, they may picture a straight line, like colours arranged from red to violet.

Autistic children with mild to moderate developmental delay will no longer be eligible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) from mid-2027. Instead, they will be directed to a new ...

Hundreds of thousands of children with autism will be diverted away from the NDIS under a new scheme announced by the federal government. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler today proposed removing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive studies to ...

A 2024 study of autism screening included an important finding: Pediatric clinicians who use a standardized screening tool are more likely to flag toddlers as potentially autistic. However, the ...

Edwin Stein Edwin Stein working at the ad-insert machine at the Concord Monitor. When Ed Stein passed away in July after a long and happy life that was colored but not constrained by mild autism, his ...