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Read more about: Gender

The articles and webinars that follow explore sexual orientation, gender identity, autism diagnosis bias, and other topics involving gender and autism.

Answers for Autism

We asked you what you wanted to know about autism, and you responded with thought-provoking and important questions.

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Girls and Women on the Spectrum: Challenges with Diagnosis and Intervention

The speaker for our eighth webinar is Kathy Koenig, MSN, director of the Initiative for Girls and Women with Autism Spectrum Disorder and associate research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center. In this webinar, Koenig discusses the complexities of diagnosing girls and women with autism and describes the different challenges for intervention that families face. She also offers some thoughts about how parents can create learning and social opportunities for their daughters. This webinar is 60 minutes long.

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