The American Psychiatric Association’s DSM Steering Committee has proposed clarifying how severity specifiers are applied to autism spectrum disorder in the DSM-5-TR, recommending separate coding for ...

The terminology related to autism can be confusing. Hans Asperger, an Austrian psychiatrist and paediatrician, first identified a subset of children of average intelligence or above who otherwise ...

There has been a heated controversy about the DSM-5 proposal to redefine autism. Will its dramatic changes in definition result in dramatic changes in who gets diagnosed and will this cause a big ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder now affects approximately 1 in 31 children in the United States, according to the CDC’s 2025 ADDM ...

Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. The fifth edition of the ...

If your child’s pediatrician hands you a questionnaire and says the results “raise some concerns,” what that really means is ...

This is the first article in a two-part series on students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) at Tufts. The conversation moves on to a recurring phenomenon of parents with a severely autistic child ...

Autism is a complex, heterogenous neurodevelopmental condition that is characterized by challenges in social interactions, communication, and repetitive and restrictive behaviors that affect various ...