Autistic people deserve better than a headline. Yet a widely circulated claim that autistic individuals have an average life expectancy of just 54 years continues to echo across media outlets, ...

Academics at Bournemouth University (BU) have been exploring the impact of menopause on autistic people and discovered that the transition can be life-changing - and in some instances even ...

Autism is often thought of as a childhood condition, but this is far from true. Autism is a lifelong condition – and most autistic people are adults. Yet less than 1 per cent of autism research has ...

Dr. Tager-Flusberg is the founder of the Coalition of Autism Scientists. Ms. Singer is the president of the Autism Science Foundation and mother of a child with autism. Dr. Lee is an epidemiologist.

Joshua Anbar receives funding from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. He is member of the Self-Advocate Advisory Board at the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC), where ...