FORT MYERS, FL, UNITED STATES, March 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Autism rates have reached historic highs, leaving ...

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

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By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. A new study comparing children with autism, ADHD, and both conditions reveals that comorbidity may alter how cognitive abilities relate to emotional and behavioral regulation ...

Parents often pressure Lawrence Diller, a behavioral/developmental pediatrician, to diagnose their children with autism. He thinks he knows why.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in how people learn, ...

When Tiffany Hammond was growing up in Texas, in the nineteen-nineties, other children teased her for how she spoke: she talked too softly, she talked in a monotone, she paused too long between words, ...

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show reduced flexible behavior on a probabilistic reversal learning task, underpinned by less optimal learning within each developmental stage, ...

FARGO, N.D. - When a 13-year-old Minnesota boy was banned from church after parishioners complained about his behavior, it exposed a painful truth so politically incorrect that some people feel guilty ...

A team of researchers has discovered a new connection between a genetic alteration and social difficulties related to autism: A mutation in the neuroligin-3 gene reduces the effect of the hormone ...