Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal ...

When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

The federal government must recognize the full spectrum of people with autism, not just those who are verbal and ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

Ms. May said what too many of us parents of autistic children have been forced to bury. Profound autism is not an idea. It’s ...

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s promise for “pulling back the curtain” to find autism’s causes in ...

Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use ...

One of the most harmful myths is that vaccines cause autism. Decades of research and large-scale studies have repeatedly ...

A large-scale longitudinal study published in The Gerontologist has found that autism spectrum traits do not affect how spatial working memory declines with age in older adults.

Scientists say the primary cause of autism is genetic, with environmental factors play­ing a secondary role. Powerful ...

Writing means something different to everyone, and for Montana writer Glenn Ackom, it’s proof that a disability does not ...