Autistic and narcissistic individuals can face social challenges in responding to others' emotions but the mechanisms that underlie their social experiences are fundamentally different.

Measles vaccination rates among the state’s large Somali community had plummeted, with the myth that the shot causes autism ...

A 7-year-old non-verbal autistic boy who wandered away from home at Lake Oconee in Putnam County was later discovered in the lake by a mail carrier.

In an excerpt from her new book 'One Bad Mother,' Ej Dickson tracks how vaccine skepticism turned a swath of women into extremists.

New research has demonstrated significant sex disparities when it comes to autism diagnosis. Despite females being just as ...

In January, toymaker Mattel released the very first autistic Barbie doll. She’s wearing a loose purple dress and headphones.

A 7-year-old child with autism was left on a school bus in Upstate New York for hours, according to a new report. Latisha ...

In the academic year so far, the proportion of children who are “persistently absent” from schools in England – missing at ...

A lawsuit pending in Tulare County Superior Court claims a 10-year-old autistic child was subjected to ongoing physical abuse ...

It's long been thought that autism is far more prevalent in boys than girls. But findings from a new study looking at data across more than three decades suggest that may not be the case.

Over more than 35 years of follow-up, 78,522 people were diagnosed with autism. This represented 2.8% of the study population ...

Milene Andrade went viral after surprising her 6-year-old daughter, Khaleesi, with a pink sensory room designed around her ...