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Machine-learning holds the promise to help clinicians spot autism sooner, but technical and ethical obstacles remain.

The White House’s plan to indefinitely detain immigrant families together threatens the care of young children, experts worry, by placing them with an agency with little experience in handling such complex needs. Previously, the administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration stance meant splitting children from parents. Immigration authorities acknowledged that during that policy 2,322 children 12 and under were […]

People with autism already have access to experimental treatments; the new law could make that access more dangerous.

Autism and intelligence share genetic variants, researchers grow Neanderthal mini-brains and see overlap with autism, and maternal diabetes is an autism risk factor.

As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the U.S. border, immigrant children as young as 3 are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.

From an app to diagnose autism to a crowdsourced project to map its prevalence, Dennis Wall is brimming with ambitious ideas. But his execution of these ideas leaves something to be desired, his critics say.

Science teaches us that housing children in institution-like settings is likely to cause severe and permanent damage to their minds and bodies.

A growing number of American children are dropping out of Medicaid and other government programs because their parents are not citizens.

The Trump administration has detained 2,322 children 12 years old or younger amid its border crackdown.