Autism

It's time to end the boot-camp approach to grad school.

These policies continue to traumatize and endanger children and teens.

Applied behavioral analysis has left a legacy of traumatized kids. Why is it still the standard of treatment?

Historian Nancy MacLean's off-the-cuff remarks earlier this month may have mischaracterized libertarianism, but they totally distorted autism.

Someday, TV will give us autistic characters who aren't all awkward savants. In the meantime, we'll keep claiming characters for our own.

"I honestly think that it will take a person with autism to find the 'cure' to autism, so that the world understands that autism doesn't need to be cured," Toliver says.

When non-white autistic students get in trouble, schools have a track record of escalating tensions and treating it as a criminal matter.

A large-scale study shows that autism may be dramatically less likely in vaccinated children.

Correlation vs. causation.

Vanderbilt University’s Jonathan Metzl and Kenneth MacLeish address our anxieties and correct our assumptions.

A new study provides more proof that pregnant mothers should stay far away from pesticide sprays.

What's not a cause of autism? Vaccines. What is? Genetics—but only in a partial, tangled, complicated way that we're still trying to figure out.

We’ll continue to work toward discovering why more and more kids are being diagnosed, but in the meantime we need to provide help for the ones who are already on the spectrum. One frustrated mom proposes 10 easy-to-implement solutions.

Kids with autism need help when it comes to making friends—but they also need their independence.

What does it mean that the American Psychiatric Association is switching from Roman numerals to Arabic? And will the critics ever be won over?

The curious case of NAET.