List of autism-related topics

This is a list of autism-related topics.

See also: Wikipedia:Notice board for 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
• 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
• Controversies in autism
• Ethical challenges to autism treatment
• MMR vaccine controversy
• Neurodiversity
• 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

Culture

Main article: Sociological and cultural aspects of autism

• Asperger syndrome and interpersonal relationships
• Autism rights movement
• Autistic art
• Neurodiversity
• Neurotypical
• Sociological and cultural aspects of autism

Legislation

• Combating Autism Act
• Jonathan's Law
• National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act

Organizations, stakeholder groups and events

• 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference
• A-CHAMP
• Aspies For Freedom
• Autism Awareness Campaign Sri Lanka
• Autism Awareness Campaign UK
• Autism Jersey
• Autism Network International
• Autism Research Institute‎
• Autism Resource Centre (Singapore)
• Autism Society of America
• Autism Speaks
• Autism Sunday
• Autistic Pride Day
• Autism Treatment Trust
• Autreat
• Generation Rescue
• M.I.N.D. Institute
• National Autism Association
• National Autistic Society (UK)
• National Vaccine Information Center
• Safe Minds
• Thoughtful House
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
• World Community Autism Program
• 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
• 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
• Blindness
• Bullying
• Clinical depression
• Coeliac disease
• Communication disorder
• Crohn's disease
• Deafness
• Dropout
• Dyscalculia
• Dysgraphia
• Dyslexia
• Dyspraxia
• Echolalia
• Erotophobia
• Homelessness
• Hyperlexia
• Imaginary friend
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Isolation
• Loneliness
• Love-shyness
• Mental retardation
• Multiple-complex Developmental Disorder
• Multisystem Developmental Disorder
• Nonverbal learning disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Picture thinking
• Poverty
• Pyroluria
• Semantic pragmatic disorder
• Sensory Integration Dysfunction
• Sensory defensiveness
• Sensory overload
• Social alienation
• Solitude
• Suicide
• Thought disorder