With a new report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tacitly embracing a recently coined autism classification and providing a first-of-its-kind breakdown on the number of kids on the ...

Advocates for those with profound autism say that a committee tasked with guiding the federal government’s strategy on the developmental disability is largely ignoring the needs of this population. A ...

While mild cases make up the majority of autism diagnoses, "profound" autism affects about 27% of American children with the developmental disability, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Yesterday, the Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research on autism — a group of 32 researchers, clinicians, family members, and self-advocates from around the world — released a ...

Experts from the Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) Center at Georgia State University will play a key role in the largest study ever conducted to investigate the causes ...

As the parents of a 5-year-old son, Asa, who is diagnosed with “level 3” or “profound” autism, there are many challenges that this form of autism presents in our daily lives. Profound autism is often ...

Labels are a divisive subject. When used inappropriately, they have the power to misrepresent and dehumanize people. As the mother of a child with autism, I have seen numerous instances in which ...

July is Disability Awareness Month and I thought it appropriate to discuss a pivotal piece of legislation that impacted all people with disabilities, and our society at large. The Americans with ...

ATLANTA — The Marcus Autism Center announced it will conduct the largest study of behavior, brain and genomic biomarkers in children across the autism spectrum following a $21.9 million grant from the ...

A tiny, flexible electronic device that wraps around the spinal cord could represent a new approach to the treatment of spinal injuries, which can cause profound disability and paralysis. A team of ...