The fulfilling life of Donald Grey Triplett offers an important lesson for today. Donald Grey Triplett was the first person to be diagnosed with autism. The fulfilling life he has led offers an important lesson for today, John Donvan and Caren Zucker write. After Rain Man, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, the next great autism portrayal the stage or screen might want to consider taking on is the life of one Donald Grey Triplett...

Pediatrician Hans Asperger is known worldwide for the syndrome he first diagnosed. The rest of his story—in Vienna during WWII—has only recently come to light. By John Donvan and Caren Zucker.

Misdiagnosed and misunderstood, autistic women and girls frequently struggle to get the support they need. By Apoorva Mandavilli.

MIT and Harvard University neuroscientists have found a link between a behavioral symptom of autism and reduced activity of a neurotransmitter whose job is to dampen neuron excitation. The findings suggest that drugs that boost the action of this neurotransmitter, known as GABA, may improve some of the symptoms of autism, the researchers say.

Useful information. Wish I'd known this before I started work.

Bruce Hall,a legally blind photographer from Santa Ana, California, has taken 150,000 photos of his sons, Jack and James, as a way to bond with them since they are unable to communicate.

A world-first study has found a hormone commonly used to induce labour in pregnant women, oxytocin, has significant benefits for some children with autism.

It’s also worth remembering that education is kind of economically weird. It’s not just another thing you buy. Education isn’t only about individual gain. There’s a social aspect as well. We want everyone to have access to quality education because having an educated populace benefits all of us. We’re not there yet. (throw to inequality?)

LARPing, or live-action roleplaying, is a game in which people create characters and act out storylines within fictional worlds, in real time, in costume. We go LARPing and meet Jon Gallagher, a LARPer with Asperger's syndrome, and see how LARPing helps him make friends, learn social skills, get a job, and in many ways, saves his life.

Service and companion dogs have helped bring better lives to people with physical difficulties. But dogs can also be a big help to kids who are trying to cope with mental and emotional needs.

Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans and a discredited scientific paper about childhood vaccines shaped our current understanding of autism.

The history of science is studded with stories of simultaneous discovery, in which two imaginative souls (or more!) turn out to have been digging tunnels to the same unspoiled destination. The most fabled example is calculus, developed independently in two different countries by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.

How newly discovered documents show that the work of a crucial autism researcher was ignored, perpetuating misinformation about autistic children. By Elon Green.

Sensewear isn't ordinary apparel. It's a wild-looking line of prototype clothing designed to help treat people with sensory perception disorders.

Wizard Mode is the story of Robert Gagno as he rises up the ranks of the international pinball circuit while striving to gain his independence and transcend the label of autism. This is a short film version of our debut feature length documentary of the same name coming out in September.

Owen barely communicated with my wife and me. But he opened up to the parrot from “Aladdin.” By Ron Suskind. (March 2014)

A new neuro-simulation framework offers insights into the physiological roots of autism and maybe even schizophrenia and aging.

I just read “How autistic adults banded together to start a movement,” Sandhya Somashekhar’s Washington Post article on the neurodiversity movement. While I was reading it, I realized...

Recent public discussions suggest that there is much disagreement about the way autism is and should be described. This study sought to elicit the views and preferences of UK autism community members – autistic people, parents and their broader support network – about the terms they use to describe autism.

When my husband and I set out to find a nursery school for our daughter, Faith, nearly ten years ago we took the decision seriously. I looked at large parent-run cooperatives and visited small home-based operations. Jeff studied the pink towers and chiming bells at the Montessori school on the hill... By Sandra Steingraber. (2011)