List of autism-related topics

This is a list of autism-related topics.

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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
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