As the definition of autism has widened, there’s been a growing push to separate profound autism into its own diagnosis.

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Most research on autism focuses on younger people, but some studies suggest older adults face increased risks — and perhaps ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. Doctors ...

Cindi May is a board member for Disability Rights South Carolina and a member of the National Accreditation Team for Inclusive Postsecondary Education. It’s not surprising, then, that unfavorable ...

Nick Caloway is a multi-skilled journalist who was thrilled to join the CBS News New York news team in August 2019. Since then, Nick has covered crime, politics, the pandemic and more across the ...

Kennedy called autism an "epidemic" at his first press conference as the secretary of health and human services on April 16 Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new ...

“It dwarfs the COVID epidemic,” the secretary of health and human services said during an April 20 radio appearance Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a ...

Autism is finally getting the kind of visibility that goes beyond medical definitions and into real, lived stories. A growing number of actors, musicians, writers, and TV personalities are talking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Megan Hufton, seen here with her sons AJ, left, and Asher, center, is education and training specialist with the Autism Society of ...

Spoiler Alert: Abraham Lincoln was neither Jewish nor a champion swimmer. Source: Abraham Lincoln/CC BY SA 3.0 My daughter Sam is bubbling over with pride when she tells me the news. "Abraham Lincoln ...