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

More teen girls and young women are self-identifying as autistic, giving clinicians a unique opportunity to help patients ...

(Colin Lloyd/Unsplash) Autism diagnoses rose sharply after the COVID-19 pandemic began, but the pattern may not mean that ...

April is National Autism Acceptance Month, which brings awareness to neurodiversity, encourages support for autistic individuals, and highlights disparities in access to care, support, and resources.

Autism in toddlerhood looks the same in boys and girls. A large study of autistic kids between 1 and 4 years old turned up no overt differences in symptoms. Those results, published May 26 in Nature ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is widely understood as a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how individuals communicate, behave, and interact with the world. Yet, when it comes to girls, autism ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the most compelling evidence to date that girls present with different symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) than boys—highlighting the ...

The number of children receiving an autism diagnosis has surged significantly over the past two decades. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, diagnoses rose from 1 in ...

Black women and girls on the spectrum have long been under-diagnosed and overlooked. A diagnosis arrives late for many of them — or not at all.

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 ...