Autism spectrum disorder rates continue to rise. The most recent data from the CDC, the most comprehensive surveillance of diagnostic rates in the U.S. to date, reveals that 1 in 36 eight-year-olds ...

A pioneering interdisciplinary study has shown that how young children play a simple iPad game could support early ...

The new Tom and Jill Zidian Family Autism Center at Akron Children's Hospital aims to make autism care more accessible, inclusive, and family-centered for patients across Northeast Ohio.

The researchers also discovered that the longer the thyroid problems lasted, the higher the likelihood of autism became. For example, children whose mothers had low thyroid hormone levels through all ...

Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine ...

Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that he directed the CDC to change its statement. Credit: AP/Rebecca Noble A new Centers for Disease ...

Hundreds of scientific studies have found no link between vaccines and autism. But some doctors say they're fielding more and ...

"CDC’s recent statement regarding vaccines and autism is inconsistent with decades of research and more than 40 carefully ...

While modern testing for autism isn’t flawless, it can encourage early detection. This can mean better support for autistic kids. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental ...