The A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was established in July 2012, thanks to support from the Charles and Barbara Close Foundation in partnership with the University. Craig Newschaffer, PhD, founding ...

Autism has the highest estimated heritability (>90%) among behaviorally defined neuropsychiatric disorders. Rapidly advancing genomic technologies and large international collaborations have increased ...

Language deficits represent the core diagnostic characteristics of autism, and some of these individuals never develop functional speech. The language deficits in autism may be due to structural and ...

This guidance has been developed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in collaboration with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). The term autism describes ...

High-functioning autism refers to autistic people whose living skills, including communication skills, enable them to live independently. However, the term is problematic, and it is not a clinical ...

Having nonspeaking autism does not mean a person cannot communicate or understand language. With the right support, they can become a strong communicator, with or without verbal language. Share on ...

Looking for reliable medications to treat 'Autism'? This page offers a detailed resource for the most up-to-date treatment options, including both generic and brand-name medications. For informed ...

The research is clear: Vaccines don’t cause autism. More than a dozen studies have tried to find a link. Each one has come up empty. The debate began in 1998 when British researchers published a paper ...