Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musician Derek Paravicini performs during the Lili Claire Foundation 10th annual benefit in Los Angeles, California, 2007 - Getty ...

Autism not only speaks, it answers back. My young friend, Laura Rockefeller, who wrote a brilliant piece on her personal heroine, Temple Grandin, for the essay collection I edited (Fast Famous Women.) ...

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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 ...

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 36 children. That is nearly the equivalent of one child per classroom. This number has risen in recent years with ...

Elon Musk and Bill Gates, two of the most powerful tech leaders, have both hinted being "different or difficult" as a factor on their routes to success. While Gates has speculated that he might have ...

Dr. Tager-Flusberg is the founder of the Coalition of Autism Scientists. Ms. Singer is the president of the Autism Science Foundation and mother of a child with autism. Dr. Lee is an epidemiologist.