The terminology related to autism can be confusing. Hans Asperger, an Austrian psychiatrist and paediatrician, first identified a subset of children of average intelligence or above who otherwise ...

Allysia Finley’s column “What’s Behind the Rise in Autism Diagnoses” (Life Science, March 10) leaves out what may be the biggest culprit: the 2013 inclusion of Asperger syndrome in an “autism spectrum ...

MARIEMONT, Ohio (WKRC) -The 14-year-old Mariemont student's arrest report showed that he has Asperger's syndrome.Psychologists say it's a form of autism. Asperger's has been a way of describing ...

When Dame Uta Frith began researching autism six decades ago, it was an extremely rare, little-understood condition which psychologists referred to as “childhood psychosis”.

The number of children diagnosed with autism will likely decline in the coming years, according to researchers who have reassessed population data and found a slight drop in prevalence based on new ...

The man credited with developing our idea of an autism spectrum and Asperger's syndrome—Hans Asperger—conducted his research in Nazi Vienna ...

Here's why the condition affects each person diagnosed with it so differently — plus how anyone with autism can thrive.

Andrew Cashin receives funding from the Australian Government National Disability Insurance Agency Information Linkages and Capacity Building Grant Scheme Grant number 4-DW65XKD. This is a mainstream ...