Prosper Health reports on autistic masking and unmasking, highlighting unmasking as a way to embrace one's true self while managing risks and finding supportive environments.

Parents play one of the most important roles in helping children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) learn new skills and become more independent. While therapists and teachers may spend only a few ...

Autism is diagnosed more often in boys than in girls. Part of the reason might be that girls are more difficult to diagnose.

Why the field is shifting  Autism assessment has always relied on two trusted sources: what a trained clinician observes and ...

During roasting hot summer days, more and more people make their way to swimming pools, lakes, rivers and other spots where ...

The number of people with the condition has increased rapidly in recent decades. Some researchers and clinicians worry that ...

Researchers have conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on how the autistic brain processes faces. Some hallmark ...

The subtle and less obvious presentations of autism are better understood, and the identification of autism increased dramatically in recent years.

Many autistic individuals have a harder time remembering faces and recognizing facial emotions than their neurotypical ...

The Trump administration has made rooting out fraud a top priority. The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is waging, in their words, “an unrelenting, full-scale assault on the fraudsters, ...