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Studying the heterogeneity of autism features over time can help us understand why some children do better or worse than expected.

The idea that one residential model is appropriate for the entire spectrum of intellectual and developmental disability is patently absurd.

Understanding autism features in children who were deprived of social contact as infants could offer clues to the condition.

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

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.

Individuals with autism have trouble reading social cues because their brains connect sights and sounds over unusually long periods of time.

The notion that people with autism lack empathy and cannot recognize other people’s feelings is wrong.

The specter of the ‘refrigerator mother’ theory continues to haunt the history of autism. New information puts Kanner’s observations of parents into context.

Scientists should phrase their findings to be sensitive to the dignity and needs of people with autism.

Some men who have an autistic child carry mutations linked to the condition only in their sperm.