The Marcus Autism Center announced it will conduct the largest study of behavior, brain and genomic biomarkers in children ...

Autistic children may be nonverbal or not have the words or other typical communication strategies to clearly explain their ...

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, ...

Although there is no cure for autism, various interventions diminish the symptoms, sometimes profoundly. Since both social and communication differences are part of the diagnosis, behavioral and ...

Why is autism often missed in girls and how is new research changing autism diagnosis across genders worldwide?

Research suggests that autistic people have a higher risk for self-harm. Negative and unsupportive environments and challenges with emotional expression and communication may contribute to this ...

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

A research team from the Department of Psychiatry at Tohoku University, led by Dr. Zhiqian Yu and Professor Hiroaki Tomita, ...

In January, toymaker Mattel released the very first autistic Barbie doll. She’s wearing a loose purple dress and headphones.

A longtime pizzeria owner has seen it all—rude kids, entitled parents, and chaos on the rise. But when a child with autism refused to follow simple restaurant rules, things escalated fast. The mother ...