Autism Spectrum Disorder is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition affecting communication and behaviour, impacting about 1 ...

Autism is a complex mental health disorder that needs to be understood through its signs and how it affects children and ...

High-functioning autism often goes unnoticed, yet daily work life can involve constant mental effort, masking and sensory ...

The diagnostic process fails to identify many individuals with the condition because their symptoms do not meet standard diagnostic criteria.

The age at which a person is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder is sometimes linked to their genetic make-up and their risk of developing mental-health conditions, according to an analysis of ...

World Autism Awareness Day 2026 highlights inclusion and acceptance, with a closer look at its theme, history, significance, ...

If your child has autism, but the diagnosis doesn’t seem to match up, one autism expert would agree with you. That’s because they claim the autism spectrum is “meaningless” because the spectrum itself ...

The autism advocacy community is split over whether adding a profound autism subtype will help the most vulnerable autistic people. Since 2013 autism diagnoses have been classified under one large ...

Since 2013, when the DSM-5 collapsed five autism subtypes into the single diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder (ASD)," we've treated autism like a monolith. Maybe that made sense when our tools were ...