This is a list of autism-related topics.
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Conditions and research areas
- Asperger syndrome
- Autism
- Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
- Autism spectrum
- Autism Spectrum Quotient
- Causes of autism
- Childhood disintegrative disorder
- Conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders
- Developmental disability
- Epidemiology of autism
- Fragile X syndrome
- Genetic disorder
- Heritability of autism
- High-functioning autism
- Isodicentric 15
- Language delay
- Learning disability
- List of further reading on Asperger syndrome
- Minamata disease
- Mirror neuron
- Pervasive developmental disorder
- PDD-NOS
- Phelan-McDermin 22q13 deletion syndrome
- Rett syndrome
- Spindle neuron
- Weak central coherence theory
Controversies
Main article: Controversies in autism
- Autism rights movement
- Autism's False Prophets
- Controversies in autism
- Ethical challenges to autism treatment
- MMR vaccine controversy
- Mother Warriors
- Neurodiversity
- Refrigerator mother
- Stealth-adapted viruses
- Thimerosal controversy
- Vaccine controversy
People
- Autistic savant
List of people on the autistic spectrum - List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum
- People speculated to have been autistic
Journalists
Politicians, philanthropists and leading activists
- Liz Birt
- Dan Burton
- Ivan and Charika Corea
- Michelle Dawson
- Deirdre Imus
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Michael Koffler
- Jenny McCarthy
- Rick Rollens
- Lee Scott
- Steve Shirley
- James Harris Simons
- Jim Sinclair
- Dave Weldon
- Donna Williams
- Bob Wright
Researchers and therapists
- John Allman
- David Amaral
- Balázs Anna
- Hans Asperger
- Simon Baron-Cohen,
- Sallie Bernard
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Thomas Burbacher
- Manuel Casanova
- Richard Deth
- Eric Fombonne
- Mark Geier
- Christopher Gillberg
- Boyd Haley
- Mady Hornig
- Leo Kanner
- Arthur Krigsman
- Derrick Lonsdale
- Ole Ivar Lovaas
- Paul Offit
- Lyn Redwood
- Bernard Rimland
- Diana Seach
- Vijendra K. Singh
- Peter Szatmari
- Thomas Verstraeten
- Andrew Wakefield
- Lorna Wing
- Edward Yazbak
Culture
Main article: Sociological and cultural aspects of autism
- Autism rights movement
- Autistic art
- Neurodiversity
- Neurotypical
- Sociological and cultural aspects of autism
Legislation
Organizations, stakeholder groups and events
- 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference
- A-CHAMP
- Aspies For Freedom
- Autism Awareness Campaign UK
- Autism Network International
- Autism Research Institute
- Autism Resource Centre (Singapore)
- Autism Society of America
- Autism Speaks
- Autism Sunday
- Autistic Pride Day
- Autism Treatment Trust
- Autism Network International (Autreat)
- Center for Autism and Related Disorders
- Generation Rescue
- M.I.N.D. Institute
- National Autism Association
- National Autistic Society (UK)
- National Vaccine Information Center
- Safe Minds
- Talk About Curing Autism
- Thoughtful House
- TreeHouse
- Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
- Wrong Planet
Therapies and interventions
Main article: Autism therapies
- Applied behavior analysis
- Chelation therapy
- Clomipramine
- Craniosacral therapy
- Ethical challenges to autism treatment
- Floortime
- Fluvoxamine
- Gluten-free, casein-free diet
- Haloperidol
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Hug machine
- Lovaas technique
- Pivotal response therapy
- Relationship Development Intervention
- Risperidone
- Secretin
- Son-Rise
- Speech therapy
- TEACCH
- Treatment and education of autistic and related communication handicapped children
- Vitamin B12
Possibly associated conditions
Main article: Conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders
These are conditions that people on the autism spectrum may suffer from more often than is typical.
- Alexithymia
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Autistic enterocolitis
- Clinical depression
- Coeliac disease
- Communication disorder
- Crohn's disease
- Deafness
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia
- Echolalia
- Erotophobia
- Hyperlexia
- Imaginary friend
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Mental retardation
- Multiple-complex Developmental Disorder
- Multisystem Developmental Disorder
- Nonverbal learning disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Picture thinking
- Pyroluria
- Semantic pragmatic disorder
- Sensory integration dysfunction
- Sensory defensiveness
- Sensory overload
- Social alienation
See also
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