Broede Carmody

Melbourne Comedy Festival performer Nikki Osborne has been forced to defend her upcoming shows after she was accused of offending people with autism.

The actor and comedian is due to perform her show 'On the Spectrum' next month. The show is about how she gets by as a mother of someone with high-functioning autism.

Three Perth boys have started a charity that aims to enhance the lives of those living with autism.

Luke Hallam, Sam Moyle and Tom Johnston take children and young adults on the autism spectrum out of their comfort zones and into the ocean - helping to break down barriers to develop confidence and self-belief.

Rebecca Wood, University of Birmingham

It’s not hard to find representations in films or on the television of fictional autistic people with poor social skills and who struggle to form relationships.

Warning: these are very distressing stories.

Liz Little

In an exclusive interview with 60 Minutes reporter Liz Hayes, set to air this Sunday, a Melbourne woman charged over the attempted murder of her son blames the disability support system for her harrowing behaviour.

After spending more than three decades caring for her autistic and epileptic son, in May last year that Yvette Nichol finally “reached breaking point” and attempted to end his life.

Phoebe Roth, The Conversation

Children with autism and their younger siblings are less likely to be fully vaccinated than neurotypical children and their siblings, new research from the US has found.

Molly Redden @mtredden

The director and star of a new low-budget film discuss their hopes of changing the narrative of how autism is represented in media

Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon in Keep the Change. Photograph: Kino Lorber

Multiple studies have found links between vitamin D and autism, but nothing is conclusive yet. Unsplash

Kelly April Tyrrell

The following story comes from Adityarup “Rup” Chakravorty, science writer at the UW–Madison Waisman Center:

There’s a saying in the autism community: If you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism.

A business which promotes ­a widely discredited sound-­stimulation service that plays ­Mozart and Gregorian chants for autistic children, and a woman who reads palms and tarot cards at Hobart’s Salamanca markets, are among providers registered for the National Disability ­Insurance Scheme.