People with autism and other neurodiverse individuals face unique issues when it comes to sleep-- from experiencing less REM sleep to dysregulation of melatonin rhythms to sensory sensitivities.

Maternal report of infant temperament and developmental milestones at 9 months of age may be associated with early indicators of autism likelihood at 12 months.

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Autism Action Partnership mourns the accidental death of a child with autism. Nine-year-old Kendrix Brehmer died Tuesday.

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Kaleb, a boy with autism featured in “Unleashing Hope,” deals with emotional dysregulation. His family talks about how he was ...

The Department of Health and Human Services denied rumors of creating an autism registry, citing plans for a data platform to ...

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But why does this happen? The solution relies on fundamental variations in how the autistic brain processes sleep. On this World Autism Day, observed on 2nd April, every year, we spoke to Dr ...

Secondly, autism presents differently in girls versus ... a time at which our brains are hugely plastic. At the same time, sleep disturbances and gastrointestinal disorders are characteristic ...