Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

For the first time since he was about 2 years old, Chris Harlow has started communicating. Harlow, now 9, is autistic and non-verbal, so simple tasks like asking for something to eat or to go to go ...

A neighborhood sign warning drivers to avoid a child with autism were tampered with over a mother’s controversial wordage. Six-year-old Austin Sharon of Garden City, Mich., was diagnosed with autism ...

As contentious claims over rising diagnoses get a presidential platform, Simon Baron-Cohen explains where talk of an ‘epidemic’ goes wrong — and why we need more recognition that autism comes in diffe ...