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

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, ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Brains are staggeringly complex. Usually, when we talk about shifting neurodevelopmental traits, we’re looking at years of ...

Studies from Drexel University and the University of Fukui reveal alarming new insights into the effects of screen time on toddlers.

For decades, autism was believed to overwhelmingly affect boys. Yet a big new study out of Sweden provides perhaps the best evidence yet that girls aren’t less likely to be autistic — they’re just ...

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 ...