For years, 7-year-old Israel Solis couldn’t communicate with the world around him. Born with autism and nonverbal, he would bite and scratch himself in frustration when someone couldn’t understand his ...

Diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 43, Karl Frederick looks back at traits he and others long labeled as being a loner, ...

Parents are incentivised to have their children diagnosed by misguided schools and welfare systems that reward such 'labels', ...

A major independent review calls for “a new model of care and radical reform”, moving from a “diagnosis-dependent” to a ...

The review, which focuses on younger age groups, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to ...

Title: Whoa Nellie! The Challenging, Messy, Magical, Funny Story of Raising a Daughter with Severe Autism in Canada Author: ...

Prof Peter Fonagy, who chaired the review, tells Radio 4's Today programme there has been a "very real" rise in "distress and ...

For Meghan Eveland, her daughter Lexi is the light in her life. After the loss of multiple loved ones, including […] ...

For an autistic child who has not previously noticed the existence of others, the experience of making eye contact can be ...

For people with autism, stimming can include movements like flapping one’s hands or rocking back and forth. These actions are ...

For most families, a trip to the car wash is just another errand. For 5-year-old Liam, it is the main event. Liam has autism, ...

For years I, and many other doctors and psychologists, have been warning that we are over-diagnosing ADHD. Just a decade ago, ...