Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that children are born with. Over the last 25 years, the prevalence rate of autism has been increasing steadily. It’s believed that part of the reason for the dramatic increase in autism diagnoses is due to the fact that advanced research has led to better education, knowledge […]

The medical research community is always in search of answers for why certain disorders develop and what things can be done to prevent them from happening in the first place. When it comes to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), much progress has been made in this arena in the last 25 years. It’s generally accepted that […]

A big obstacle that medical and mental health professionals face when trying to diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the fact that there is no single blood test or medical exam that can identify it. Instead, diagnoses are made based on the prevalence of behaviors that children exhibit and based upon comparisons of different stages […]

Thanks to recent research and studies, much more is known today about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) than even 20 years ago. That has led to many great advancements in the diagnosis of autism, as well as the different treatment methods that are available. At the same time, there’s still a lot that we don’t know […]

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurological disorder that is seemingly affecting an increasing number of people each year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about one in 36 children has autism, a significant increase from the prevalence rate of only a few years earlier. There are many possible reasons […]

Thanks to the plethora of research and studies that have been conducted over the last 30 years or so, a significant amount of knowledge has been gained about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) This has helped advance the accuracy of diagnosis, the effectiveness of targeted treatment methods such as applied behavioral analysis (ABA therapy) and the […]

As the rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have risen dramatically in the United States over the last 20 years or so, people inside and outside of the healthcare community are searching for reasons why this might be. To date, there has been no single cause of autism identified. Unfortunately, this may always be the […]

The prevalence of autism has risen dramatically in the U.S. — and in other parts of the world — precipitously over the last 20 years. A 2023 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one in 36 children have autism, a major increase from the one-in-44 rate from 2018. More concerning is […]

While much more is known about autism today than ever before, there are still a lot of unanswered questions. One of the big things on people’s minds is how autism develops and what some of the major risk factors for it are. Unfortunately, there is no medical exam or blood test that can detect autism. […]

With the sharp increase of autism diagnoses in recent years, researchers have sought to find out what the causes of the development disorder are. It’s become well-known that part of the reason why there has been such a spike in diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder is likely because the diagnosis criteria for the disorder have […]