Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at his April 16 news conference about autism research. (C-SPAN) A number of otherwise skeptical senators took at face value the pledge ...

A new study on how U.S. defense attorneys think about autism and use strategies informed by neurodiversity in their work ...

Dasgupta is the author of “Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins” and a professor of medicine at Boston University. President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise ...

Last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a number of comments about the life prospects of autistic people, including that they "will never pay taxes, never hold a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer by day, Comic by night, who aims to inform, inspire, and amuse. When Autism Speaks was founded in 2005, the autism ...

A 15-year-old autistic Nigerian has set the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest art canvas to raise awareness for autism. Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke's painting, which features a ...

On Monday, President Trump held a news conference where he claimed that autism is “among the most alarming public health crises in history” and something that may be “artificially induced.” ...

A number of otherwise skeptical senators took at face value the pledge by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Senate hearings in January to “follow the science” on issues related to the causes of disease in the ...