For parents, an autism diagnosis for their child is life-changing, often following months of uncertainty. Questions about eye contact, social responsiveness, and developmental progress lead families ...

Some call it the '“gold standard” of autism care but the therapy is not cheap and many state Medicaid programs are cutting ...

Applied behavior analysis has become one of Medicaid’s fastest-growing costs, prompting cuts that families say threaten ...

Among the children, 335 had an autism diagnosis that their clinicians were “certain” of without using the eye-tracking tool. When the eye-tracking tool was used for just this group, the researchers ...

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For people with autism, constipation, diarrhea, and abdominal pain often go along with the social struggles and repetitive behaviors that define the condition. This has prompted many to wonder whether ...

ABA Centers of America employs an innovative strategy to help children with autism. On April 16, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made some scientifically unfounded comments ...