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Participants in "Love On The Spectrum" make a toast.
Arts, Culture & Media
Netflix series about the dating lives of autistic people gets mixed reviews
Caissie Levy as Elsa in “Frozen” on Broadway.
Culture
Behind the curtain at autism-friendly Broadway shows
Art and Autism
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Storyteller
Arts, Culture & Media
Lucy
Arts, Culture & Media
Blythe Corbett
Arts, Culture & Media
Wretches & Jabberers Take Autism on the Road
Naoki Higashida
Books
A young Japanese voice breaks the silence of autism
Tuesday’s Turnout, Trump & The Truth, Understanding Autism
Full Episode
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Health
Why are researchers missing signs of autism in girls?
Connecting The Dots Between Child Prodigies and Autism
Full Episode
Asperger with patients
Medicine
A new book recounts the forgotten history of autism
Kayleb Moon-Robinson — who is diagnosed as autistic — had barely started sixth grade last fall in Lynchburg, Virginia, when a school resource officer filed charges against him. Kayleb was charged with disorderly conduct for kicking over a trash can and th
Justice
UPDATE: How kicking a trash can became criminal for a 6th grader
A measles outbreak is taking hold in the US
Medicine
A discredited British study helped create today’s anti-vaccine movement
The marquee at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, where "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is playing.
Arts
How to play an autistic math whiz — for an audience of autistic kids
Osman Chandab in Melbourne, Australia contracted whooping cough before getting vaccinated.
Health
No matter where in the world you are, opting out of childhood vaccines can be a catastrophic choice
Gut and Brain
Science
Bacteria in our gut may influence both our physical and mental health
Health & Medicine
Autistic kids star in a new play — and documentary — from the United Arab Emirates
Health & Medicine
Rate of autism diagnoses rises dramatically, cause unknown
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Wretches and Jabberers’
Arts, Culture & Media
Asperger’s syndrome and a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic
Health & Medicine
Study links environmental factors to autism
Health & Medicine
Autism facts and fiction
Caregiver Resources
Maternal Antibodies May Be Closely Connected to Autism
Temple Grandin on ‘The Autistic Brain’
Mother of Child with Asperger’s: ‘Autism Is Not an Explanatory Factor in [Adam Lanza’s] Actions’
Genetic and Environmental Links to Autism
Rate of Autism Diagnoses Rises Dramatically
Redefining Autism: How it Could Change Treatment and Policy
Changing the Definition of Autism: A Mother’s Point of View
Sensitive Santas Cater to Autistic Children
Arts, Culture & Media
The Great International Autism Road Trip
Vaccines and Autism
Brains and the Environment
Autism and Toxins
Health Note
Arts, Culture & Media
Windows to the Soul
Global Politics
Blythe Corbett
Global Politics
On the Spectrum
Business, Economics and Jobs
Tim Page
Health & Medicine
Autism facts, autism fiction
Conflict & Justice
Disabled Students More Likely to Face Corporal Punishment
Arts, Culture & Media
Is Asperger’s Hollywood’s Disease du Jour?
Conflict & Justice
Somalis in Minneosota report many cases of autism
Environment
The Ick Factor: Can worms cure common illnesses?
Autism, Flanagan, Shearwater