A new study published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools explores how elementary school–aged peers can be taught to support classmates with autism who are minimally speaking. The ...

A recent study found that family participation in therapy directly improves children’s social communication and emotional ...

Communication is vital to expressing and getting what we want and need, bonding with other people and navigating the world in which we live. But, by definition, autistic people often deal with ...

Most of Diana’s 59 years were spent trying to figure out a social world that mystified her. Finally, well into middle age, she received a diagnosis that explained her struggles ─ autism. She learned ...

Emma G Duerden receives funding from the Canada Research Chairs program. Elizabeth Kuenzel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Parenting a child with autism can bring unique joys and challenges arising from a multitude of factors—for example, first words, uncertainty about the future, communication deficits, managing ...

A groundbreaking study led by researchers at East China Normal University’s Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Education reveals that autistic children exhibit social attention patterns ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a study on autism he spearheaded in April had found “interventions” that could be causing the neuro-developmental disorder. He said the results of the study ...

A landmark review of autism therapies has uncovered that there is no strong evidence that alternative treatments work, and they have not been evaluated for safety. The most comprehensive analysis of ...