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The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause the disorder.

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For decades, we've been told that autistic people lack empathy. This assumption is embedded into diagnostic criteria. It shapes how society views autism and how autistic people are represented in ...

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, ...

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.