New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

Your dog spins in relentless circles during walks, ignores other dogs, and freezes at the sound of a vacuum. These quirks ...

Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they ...

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, ...

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 ...

Some call it the '“gold standard” of autism care but the therapy is not cheap and many state Medicaid programs are cutting ...

Applied behavior analysis has become one of Medicaid’s fastest-growing costs, prompting cuts that families say threaten ...

A local family says recent changes to behavioral therapy coverage for Idahoans on Medicaid are already affecting their young ...