A reader responds to Bill Gates.

A Boston College computer scientist is directing her research toward assisting a relatively underserved population: adults with autism. Supported by a $500,000 research grant from the National ...

A Wisconsin mother who starved her adult daughter with “severe autism” to death pleaded guilty in court on Thursday afternoon. In June 2023, Amy S. Laszkiewicz, 53, was charged with one count ...

Can you get diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder as an adult? Find out what that is like.

Proponents of neurodiversity, often high functioning adults with autism ... neurodiversity are often family members of those with severe autism. They believe that autism is a disability and ...

“Generally speaking, rates of ADHD decrease as children grow up, but we found that ADHD rates among autistic adults were ...

The incidence of ADHD amongst adults under 30 has increased twentyfold ... lists and water down the seriousness of the ...

Over the years, the prevalence of autism has gone up. However, a study finds that the number of adults with autism has increased significantly.

The Anderson Center collects millions of dollars in state and city funds to educate students with severe autism. Garnet Collins, an aide at the Anderson Center for Autism, grabbed a Queens student ...

I am an Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist ... and anticonvulsants may be prescribed to address specific severe symptoms. Some people with autism spectrum disorder may be engaged in some ...

I don’t begrudge Bill Gates’s musings that he would have been put on the autism spectrum if he were a child today. Yet as a parent of a young adult who is nonverbal with severe autism ...