Diagnosing a person with autism spectrum disorder can be challenging. It's a medical condition that no blood test, brain scan or objective test can pinpoint. And because of each person's distinctive ...

Social communication and interaction skills can be challenging for people with ASD. Examples of social communication and social interaction characteristics related to ASD can include People with ASD ...

Autism — now generally known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — is a form of neurodiversity that affects how people perceive ...

Autism is a condition that tends to be rather difficult to diagnose. There is a saying that claims that if you've met a child with autism, well, you've met one child with autism, because all of them ...

“No one diagnosed my daughter with ASD because she talked,” said some parents of girls who discussed this problem with me. The more that I work with families of girls with autism spectrum disorder ...

This article presents information collected during a needs assessment of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to highlight the issues facing children with ASD and their families. It ...

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) sometimes occur together. While FXS is a known genetic cause of ASD, not everyone who receives an FXS diagnosis is autistic, and not all ...

Autism spectrum disorder is a condition related to brain development that affects how a person perceives and socializes with others, causing problems in social interaction and communication.