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- Autism, formally called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by deficits in reciprocal...
- Autism Speaks Inc. is a non-profit autism awareness organization and the largest autism research organization in the United States. It sponsors autism...
- The history of autism spans over a century; autism has been subject to varying treatments, being pathologized or being viewed as a beneficial part of...
- High-functioning autism (HFA) was historically an autism classification where a person exhibits no intellectual disability, but may experience difficulty...
- disabilities that are not necessarily pathological. The framework grew out of the autism rights movement and builds on the social model of disability, arguing that...
- World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognized day annually on April 2, encouraging Member States of the United Nations to take measures to...
- classic autism, also known as childhood autism, autistic disorder, (early) infantile autism, infantile psychosis, Kanner's autism, Kanner's syndrome,...
- The heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of...
- Diagnoses of autism have become more frequent since the 1980s, which has led to various controversies about both the cause of autism and the nature of...
- Autism is characterized by the early onset of impairments in reciprocal social interaction and communication and restricted repetitive behaviors or interests...