No two children on the autism spectrum are alike, but one common challenge many of them face is difficulty with sleep.

BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas — A Brazoria County mother is demanding justice after shocking surveillance video from her 5-year-old son’s elementary school shows a teacher forcefully slamming him to the ...

When Robyn Kistemaker’s son, Lucas, was in preschool, his teacher recommended screening him for autism after noticing certain behaviors, such as running away from the class or tearing up paper and tos ...

Witnesses say the suspect, Christopher Allen, repeatedly slammed the child’s face into a shopping cart before an off-duty ...

Elizabeth McLain wasn’t diagnosed with autism until she was in her 20s, and it only happened then because she had been an ...

Ms. May is a writer and the mother of a child with autism. When I tell strangers that my daughter is autistic, their questions are often so far from my reality, it’s painful. Does she have a unique ...

Aimee Grant receives funding from The Wellcome Trust, MRC and ESRC. Around a third of autistic people – children and adults alike – are unable to share what they want using speech. You may have heard ...

Autism diagnosed in early childhood differs genetically and developmentally from autism identified later in an individual’s development, challenging the notion that it is a single, uniform disorder, ...

Ryan Baldridge Jr. was a bright, talkative toddler — breezing through flash cards, building an “astonishing” vocabulary and hitting developmental milestone with ease. Then, at 18 months, something ...

The creation of Tylenol as a brand name for the drug acetaminophen dates to 1955. Acetaminophen itself was first prepared in 1878, but it didn't receive widespread use until Tylenol's creation. The ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.