People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

In diagnosing autism – the developmental variant that affects around 80 million people worldwide – medical practitioners today put too much emphasis on a child's lack of sociability and not enough on ...

The number of people pulled from the new car scheme for rule breaches has risen from seven to 15 a day, figures show ...

Without clear and effective biological tests for autism based on genes, brain or blood measurements, diagnosis today still ...