Autism Spectrum Disorder

Roughly 2% of adults in the nation have autism spectrum disorder – that’s about 5.4 million people over 18. And a lot of them go through life masking, which is any attempt or strategy “to hide your disability.”

Despite increased awareness, research advances and wider insurance coverage for therapies, children often wait months to get an autism diagnosis and begin intervention services.

A House Democrat on Tuesday filed a bill that could place new requirements on health insurers related to the screening of children for autism spectrum…

How do young adults diagnosed with a form of autism describe themselves? This week on Florida Matters, we meet Andrew Casey, 23, who interviewed his peers…

Instead of going to the experts to define autism we asked people who had been diagnosed with neurological disorder to explain it. “Autism is like being on