NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dr. Allen Frances, about his piece in the New York Times titled, "Autism Rates have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That." ...

The revolutionary children’s television program "Sesame Street" has been teaching kids more than their 123’s and ABC’s since its inception in 1969.

Recently, there has been increasing awareness about autism diagnoses and their complexity. At the same time, the United States federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made several ...

However, “the apparent rise in autism diagnoses in the U.S. is primarily due to improved awareness, expanded diagnostic criteria, and enhanced screening practices, rather than a true increase in ...

This builds on previous similar research. March 19, 2017 – CBS News’ “60 Minutes” profiles “Sesame Street’s” newest Muppet character, a girl named Julia who has autism.

Fact check: RFK Jr. misleads on autism prevalence, causes Kennedy, who has a history of pushing the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism, expressed false confidence that it is possible to ...

In a 2012 study, which Fombonne co-authored, researchers reexamined records from a 1980s autism prevalence study in Utah, finding that 59% of the individuals originally designated as not having ...