Apps, robots and brain imaging can help children with autism improve their social skills and connect with other people.

People with autism who speak few or no words need tools that can help them communicate. Scientists could make this happen.

A new bill threatens to lower the scientific standards that have made the Food and Drug Administration’s approval the gold standard worldwide.

A new guide offers the most detailed assessment yet of ability in people with autism, and may be a useful tool for diagnosis and research.

Scientists should regularly relate their work to a broad audience, and universities should support these efforts.

Studying the visual system could help scientists understand how autism alters neural functioning in the brain.

Deletion of a section of chromosome 22 can cause psychosis in one individual and autism in another, via independent biological pathways.

A new study shows that women with autism are continually misunderstood, work to camouflage their true selves and face a high risk of sexual abuse.

Modern treatments for autism are often led by parents and integrated into a child’s daily life.

Finding a difference between people with and without autism is only the first step toward identifying a clinically useful marker of the condition.