The education of autistic children and young people in western societies has been heavily influenced by a medicalized understanding of autism. This means considering autism as a disorder, with a focus ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said April 10 during a meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet that the government will know the cause of the "autism epidemic” by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may have seen videos on social media where people detail the signs that made them realize they’re autistic. Viewers are ...

Is the rise in late diagnoses of autism in "high masking" individuals, especially in women, due to social media influences or new information?

Epistemic injustice is the assumption that people, usually those with less power, are unable to correctly understand their ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently claimed that we will learn the cause of autism within a few months. Kennedy told reporters, “we’ve launched a massive testing and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump (C), alongside Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L) and Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz (R), speaks about autism in the Roosevelt ...

The autism advocacy community is split over whether adding a profound autism subtype will help the most vulnerable autistic people. Since 2013 autism diagnoses have been classified under one large ...

Re “Autistic People Point to Full Lives as Rebuttal to Kennedy’s Dire Claim” (news article, April 19): I am part of the autistic population that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, claims ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. Medical training is designed to mold students into doctors ...