About 2% of the world's adults have autism spectrum disorder. And many people recently have come to the realization that they're autistic as adults, some sharing their stories about their diagnosis or ...

Autism diagnoses have increased sharply in recent decades, leading to speculation that the condition is new or triggered by modern environmental factors. But a comprehensive review of research on ...

The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey provides the official statistics on trends over time in autism, psychotic disorder, ...

The number of Americans diagnosed with autism jumped 175% between 2011 and 2022 thanks to a surge in new cases among young adults, new research finds. A developmental disorder, autism affects how ...

Amid swelling political rhetoric that frames autism as a tragedy, some families are urging lawmakers to focus instead on ...

Parents of children with autism had a chance to learn about the disorder during an information panel in Aiken at Rural Health ...

New numbers show that autism affects one in 59 children. More children are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...