The work of eight artists with autism from around the world will be emblazoned on a series of postage stamps launching in April in honor of World Autism Awareness Day.

A presidential appointment this week to a federal disability committee is drawing backlash from a group of self-advocates.

The United Nations will honor autism awareness next year with a series of postage stamps designed by individuals with the developmental disability.

President Barack Obama signed a three-year extension of the Combating Autism Act Friday, the very day the law — and many of the programs it established — was set to expire.

The U.S. Senate approved an extension of the country’s primary autism legislation late Monday night after a group of Republicans agreed to lift a hold on the bill.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved an extension of major autism legislation Tuesday evening, but the bill’s future remains unclear.

With little fanfare, a U.S. Senate committee quickly passed a reauthorization of the country’s main autism legislation Wednesday morning.

As autism advocates press for laws requiring that private health insurers cover behavior therapy, the question of who should license therapy providers is emerging as key.

Congress is moving forward with efforts to renew key autism legislation, but some advocates aren’t happy charging that a proposal this week does nothing more than maintain the status quo.

The nation’s largest autism advocacy group has a new executive tasked with bringing research to the real world and he comes straight from a pharmaceutical giant.

A well-known newsman whose highly publicized PBS NewsHour series this month sparked debate about the portrayal of autism in the media will respond to viewers on the program Tuesday.

The Obama administration is committed to reauthorizing key autism legislation before it expires late this year, the nation’s top health official said Monday.

As Autism Awareness Month kicks off, hundreds of buildings will go blue and a film on autism will screen nationally, but not everyone is pleased with so much attention going to “awareness.”

A 91-year-old former New Hampshire state legislator who made national headlines for suggesting the state send people with disabilities to Siberia is apologizing, at least to one resident.

Advocates are divided over a CDC proposal to add wandering to the menu of descriptors doctors can use to diagnose individuals with autism, intellectual disability and other conditions.