Autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by repetitive, restricted, and inflexible patterns of behavior...

Autism Speaks Inc. is an American non-profit autism awareness organization and the largest autism research organization in the United States. It sponsors...

High-functioning autism (HFA) was historically an autism classification to describe a person who exhibited no intellectual disability but otherwise showed...

The heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of...

Autism therapies include a wide variety of therapies that help people with autism, or their families. Such methods of therapy seek to aid autistic people...

Classic autism, also known as childhood autism, autistic disorder, (early) infantile autism, infantile psychosis, Kanner's autism, Kanner's syndrome,...

The history of autism spans over a century; autism has been subject to varying treatments, being pathologized or being viewed as a beneficial part of...

with the start of Autism Network International. Much of the correspondence that led to the formation of the movement happened over autism conferences, namely...

special interests if they are particularly unusual, specific, or niche. Autism rights advocates and psychologists say this binary of acceptable "passions"...

The autism rights movement, also known as the autistic acceptance movement, is a social movement allied with the disability rights movement. It emphasizes...