Right before Congress powered down for the holidays, lawmakers passed the Autism CARES Act of 2024, appropriating nearly $2 billion to pay for a huge number of autism research, training and services ...

ATLANTA - More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade searching for the causes of autism. In some ways, the research looks like a long-running fishing expedition, with a focus on ...

Imagine having a child who meets all of the milestones for development as an infant, but in his toddler years, everything changes. Progress becomes regression. Verbal skills may disappear, and younger ...

For decades, the scientific community has worked to dispel a thoroughly debunked theory that vaccines cause autism and finally shift its focus to find true potential causes. But now, autism advocates ...

The Government has only made good progress on less than a third of the recommendations made by an autism committee two years ago. In 2023, the then-Oireachtas Autism Committee published its final ...

Researchers tested 77 university students in a curiosity-driven exploration task. Study: Autistic traits foster effective curiosity-driven exploration. Image Credit: vetre/Shutterstock.com In a recent ...