Robert F Kennedy said people with autism "will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball," in remarks that are now being criticised.

Those who work with children with autism say the recent increase in diagnoses comes from better screening for — and wider knowledge of — the disorder.

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya promised that answers and solutions regarding the United States’s surge of autism will come “within the next year,” marking a later date than the September deadline Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.