Every parent wants to be reassured that their newborn infant is normal and the discovery
that one's child has a serious disabling condition is among the most devastating of all …

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder beginning at birth or shortly after. The
characteristic symptoms have been described as a triad of impairments involving delay and …

In the past few years, the reported incidence of autism has increased at a remarkably high
rate across the world. There are at least two reasons for this: broader boundaries of the …

Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of interest in autism and autism
spectrum disorders. Knowledge and awareness of the condition has grown exponentially at …

Global concern regarding the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and
awareness of the burden of the disease has increased dramatically over the past decade …

Background: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are serious neurodevelopmental disorders
affecting approximately one in 160 Australians. Symptoms are apparent during the second …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is typically diagnosed between 2 and 5 years of age, which
is currently thought to be the earliest that the behavioural symptoms are able to be identified …

The increment of prevalence is among the most important changes that have taken place in
recent years with regard to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); in the 1970s and 1980s of the …

Autism spectrum disorders are of high prevalence and have a potentially complex range of
presentations within the core impaired domains of social communication, reciprocal social …

Autism is a spectrum disorder marked by considerable heterogeneity and characterized by
impairments in the social communication domain along with the presence of restricted and …