A search for a missing 19-year-old has ended in tragedy Thursday afternoon when the Schertz Police Department located a body ...

Zacharias Stallings, who has a condition called Asperger's Syndrome, was last seen at his Schertz home on Saturday.

Katie French was kicking off her teaching career at Avery Elementary School in Webster Groves, Mo. 22 years ago when she ...

What we now call autism has surely been a part of the human condition for as long as human beings have existed. But the way different cultures understand, talk about and treat people who exhibit the ...

What are we talking about when we talk about Asperger’s syndrome? It’s a reasonable question to ask in the midst of the furor over the American Psychiatric Association’s proposed changes to the way ...

There has been much speculation surrounding Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter who killed his mother, 20 children and six adults before taking his own life last Friday. As people ...

If a child receives a medical diagnosis, it’s natural for a parent to jump into research. If the parent is a historian, perhaps the urge is magnified — so when my son was diagnosed with autism at 17 ...

Asperger's syndrome refers to a high-functioning form of autism. Although it was once classified as its own condition, Asperger’s is no longer an official diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical ...

Children and adults with Asperger’s syndrome experience a wide variety of symptoms, and no two cases are exactly the same. Some individuals will face minor issues that don’t interfere with their ...

You might think that you could recognize autism in someone without much trouble, but neurologists and mental health specialists are now realizing that many people with high-functioning autism ...

While Asperger’s is no longer used as a clinical diagnosis — as of 2013, the American Psychiatric Association classifies Asperger’s as part of the autism spectrum disorders — the terminology is still ...