In the US, kids and teens with autism have medical bills that are, on average, $4,110 to $6,200 more expensive then their peers, every year. In addition to that routine medical care, behavioral ...

When the county nurse arrived last spring at Sandra Thompson’s home, it was a routine visit to evaluate Thompson’s newborn daughter. Her three-year-old son, Nathan, was also home. The ...

A recent study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, showed that autism is a significant health burden in India. The study, based on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk ...

Similarly, it is very difficult to deviate from your normal routine. People with level 3 autism require very substantial support to address severe impairments in many areas of everyday life.

They show an early preference for unvarying routines of everyday life. Restricted interests are another feature of autism, so children may develop a fascination with train schedules or comic books ...

On the behavioral side, autism spectrum disorder can also manifest as a "rigid reliance on routines, an intense focus on specific topics or sensory sensitivities," according to Jonathan Alpert ...

We have a lot of routines at home built in so that she can come home and be pretty independent." The autism diagnosis is becoming more common. Autism Speaks, an advocacy group, pointed to a study ...

As we know from the many, many weeks of articles in this column, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) combines differences in cognition and social interaction with fundamental aspects of perception, ...

living with a roommate and managing new academic routines without the family support available in high school. About 1 in 36 children in the U.S. was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in ...

and being distressed by changes to the daily routine are observed. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a genetic component but it cannot be diagnosed from biological markers so an ...