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

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

Mattel said it developed the autistic doll over more than 18 months in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.

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For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes he would have been diagnosed as autistic if he were a child today. Gates made the revelation in an interview to promote his forthcoming book, ...

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Autism therapy centers offer services like applied behavior analysis (ABA), in which positive reinforcement is used to help ...