A landmark review of autism therapies has uncovered that there is no strong evidence that alternative treatments work, and they have not been evaluated for safety. The most comprehensive analysis of ...

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LeeAnn DiTomaso, co-owner of Access S2C in Highland Heights, was working as a labor-and-delivery nurse when a friend’s nonverbal son demonstrated his new spelling skills by typing out this message to ...

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by impairments in social ...

There was some backlash to Mattel's newly introduced autistic Barbie. But one doll could never represent an entire community.

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...