More than 200,000 people are now waiting for an autism assessment in England, with some having been on the list for years, alarming NHS data show. Autism charities said it was unacceptable that the ...

The Nuffield Trust said long waits for autism assessments were especially damaging for children The extraordinary rise in demand for autism assessments and ADHD treatments in England has overtaken the ...

New guidance developed in the wake of the controversial Cass Review will require England’s National Health Service (NHS) to conduct autism and ADHD diagnostic examinations on all trans and nonbinary ...

More and more UK adults have received treatment for ADHD over the past couple of years, but thanks in part to the NHS’s ADHD assessment wait times, ADHD UK says roughly two million cases are still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US president Donald Trump spoke about autism at the White House on Monday. (PA) (BJ Warnick, Newscom) Donald Trump's claim that ...

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The number of children seeking help for suspected autism has spiralled to an all-time high in Covid's wake, official data revealed today. Almost 130,000 under 18s in England were still awaiting an ...

Meanwhile, the National Autistic Society shares that roughly 750,000 autistic adults in the UK may also be missing a formal diagnosis. Some researchers think that undiagnosed ADHD or autism can lead ...