Officials say 13-year-old Maddie Benson was last seen around Monday night, around 10 p.m.

A woman has been arrested over the death of a 7-year-old autistic girl found dead in a golf-course pond. Nyla May Bradshaw ...

Authorities say a 13-year-old autistic girl who was reported missing the night of April 13 was killed by a dump truck.

Nyla Bradshaw was found dead less than three hours after she was left with the babysitter for the first time, according to a new report ...

A woman has been arrested after an autistic seven-year-old girl died after being found face down in a golf course pond.

A South Fulton police captain used his personal experience and specialized training to calm a child with autism during an ...

A young Mexican girl, Adhara Perez Sanchez, diagnosed with autism, is captivating the world with her rapid academic ...

Blame it on the X factor. Research has long shown that boys are over three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. In fact, about 1 in 20 US boys are diagnosed with autism by age 8.

Autism has long been viewed as a condition that predominantly affects male individuals, but a study from Sweden published by The BMJ shows that autism may actually occur at comparable rates among male ...

A new paper suggests that a girl's two X chromosomes can ‘buffer the effects of autism-associated mutations' better than a ...