5/30/2025 – Recent Autism News

  • They Were Diagnosed With Autism as Adults. It Has Changed Their Lives.

    Published: 1 day ago | (Link to WSJ)

    In grade school, Jamie Donovan often spent recess picking bark off trees. At home, she sometimes hid in her father’s truck if she needed to block out visual…

  • It was the first bill to pass the Senate and now it’s the law; DeSantis signs autism package

    Published: 2 days ago | (Link to Florida Phoenix)

    A bill that increases early detection opportunities and educational interventions for children with autism and their families (and a top priority for Senate…

  • Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should they? : It’s Been a Minute

    Published: 2 days ago | (Link to NPR)

    A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism,…

  • Alongside, ABA Unlimited Announce Deals As M&A in Autism Therapy Pops Early in 2025

    Published: 3 days ago | (Link to Behavioral Health Business)

    Dealmaking in autism therapy is off to a hot start, after a few years of depressed volumes, marked by two recent deals from new entrants to the.

  • For Kids With Autism, Gaza Is Hell Upon Hell

    Published: 3 days ago | (Link to The Nation)

    Areej Alkhateab’s four children all have autism. Life during the genocide has been a continual nightmare. Shahad Ali. Share. Copy Link. Facebook.

  • Autism Tied to Early-Onset Parkinson’s Disease

    Published: 3 days ago | (Link to MedPage Today)

    People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had a higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease early in life, a nationwide population-based study in Sweden…

  • No Sex Differences in Autistic Toddlers at Time of First Diagnosis, Study Finds

    Published: 4 days ago | (Link to UC San Diego Today)

    A new study from UC San Diego reports no clinical differences in language development, social and motor skills, and core autism traits between female and…

  • NISE Fellow Hari Srinivasan Co-Authors Foreword with Temple Grandin in Autism for Dummies

    Published: 4 days ago | (Link to Vanderbilt University)

    We want to extend our deepest congratulations to Hari Srinivasan, one of our Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE) fellows.

  • Large-scale examination of early-age sex differences in neurotypical toddlers and those with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental conditions

    Published: 4 days ago | (Link to Nature)

    Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is clinically heterogeneous, with ongoing debates about phenotypic differences between boys and girls.

  • RFK Jr. is looking in the wrong place for autism’s cause

    Published: 8 hours ago | (Link to Vox)

    Let’s start with one unambiguous fact: More children are diagnosed with autism today than in the early 1990s. According to a sweeping 2000 analysis by the…