Adults can use self-screening autism tests before seeing a healthcare professional. A healthcare professional must provide a formal autism diagnosis based on specific criteria. Autism is diagnosed ...

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 ...

A school project prompted 17-year-old Edward Kang to develop an AI tool that may lead to earlier diagnoses of the disorders.

The UK Government has launched an independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD, and autism, as diagnoses are rising ...

A while back, I got assessed for autism. As a clinician, I have always had my suspicions, but wanted to get the opinion of someone else more qualified to assess. I haven't told many people; I mostly ...

Autism is diagnosed more often in boys than in girls. Part of the reason might be that girls are more difficult to diagnose.