For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum — an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

On November 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website to address the vaccine and autism ...

Childhood immunizations are essential for protecting against infectious diseases, disability and death. With developing ...

New research suggests that the way brain networks reorganize moment-to-moment predicts autism severity. Children who spent ...

Some individuals with autism have challenges processing senses. Others struggle to communicate. Still others might have a tough time socializing, thinking, physically moving or just going about daily ...

A "transition" occurs when a child has to move from one task or situation to another. Children are required to make multiple transitions during the day. Daily transitions include getting ready in the ...

Doctors say that there is no scientific evidence suggesting a link between vaccines that infants and young children receive in the first few years of life and the risk of autism, but that has not ...

Every morning, Avigael Wodinsky sets a timer to keep her 12-year-old son, Naftali, on track while he gets dressed for school. “Otherwise,” she says, “he’ll find 57 other things to do on the way to the ...

Steve Slavin was 48 years old when a visit to a psychologist’s office sent him down an unexpected path. At the time, he was a father of two with a career in the music industry, composing scores for ...