New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

Autism is an inherently complex condition, but new research breaks it down into four distinct categories, each defined by a ...

Barbie is launching its first autistic doll in an effort to represent how individuals with autism spectrum disorder ...