New research from UC Santa Cruz shows incremental improvements in the representation of autistic adults in film, television, books, media coverage, and advocacy organization websites. The study, ...

Whether you’re trying to learn more about your own brain or seeking to better understand someone you care about, books are a great way to educate yourself about autism. However, many books about ...

The book also describes the efforts of the original autism parents' movement, led by Ruth Christ Sullivan, whose son, Joe, was one of the models for Dustin Hoffman's "Rain Man." Beginning in the ...

New book shares stories of adults with autism. Posted: March 26, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. We often hear stories about autistic children but rarely do we hear about or from autistic adults ...

About half of adults with autism continue to grapple with aggressive, self-injurious behaviors as they get older, and about half are also unemployed—the lowest employment rate among disability ...

Magro has written five books, the most recent of which, "Supporting Your Autism Journey: Autistic Adult Answers Your Burning Questions," is being released April 2, in honor of World Autism ...

What It's Like To Find Out As An Adult : Shots - Health News Growing up, they knew something was different, but nobody put a name to it. For many, it took years to get a diagnosis: autism. Finally ...

I published a book I'd built up audiences across platforms by posting every day and live-blogging on TikTok and Instagram about my experiences with autism and ADHD in depth.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Tonight, we begin an occasional series about people living with autism and other spectrum disorders, A Place in the World. While reporting the history of autism for their book, "In ...

The picture you probably have in your mind of autism is that of a child. But autism is almost always -- if not always -- a condition that lasts for life. We are the parents of a 22-year-old young ...

To help them, Moultrie wanted to buy books about autism to give to the children. However, when she searched for children’s books that explained the developmental disability, she didn’t find many.