Research consistently shows that autistic people face higher risks of mental health difficulties and are more likely to think ...

A major new study reveals that autistic children’s brains process faces differently, and those differences may begin earlier ...

When children hear a sentence about someone’s feelings, part of the brain’s language system typically responds more strongly ...

The data showed autistic children were seeking help for suicidal thoughts in A&E at significantly younger ages than their non ...

A high school senior project has become a new resource for families across the region with children on the autism ...

Emotion regulation is a universal challenge for adults and children alike and the primary reason why individuals seek psychological support. Autistic children’s emotion regulation is impacted by ...

When my son Sam was seven or eight years old, he spent a good bit of time on weekends upside down on a floral-print armchair in our living room. In one hand, he held Batman; in the other, Robin.

We are interested in describing the specific ways that caregivers ‘design’ their talk so that their autistic children are included as participants in the interaction, without having to rely on spoken ...

University of Houston psychology researcher Jason Griffin, who has pioneered new ways of measuring eye movements to understand autism spectrum disorder, is reporting that children with autism focus on ...

Colorado State University's Dr. Caiti Peters explains how horses help children with autism regulate stress, backed by ...

Autism is not a disease or an entity. It is not something that we must seek out to eradicate. Rather, it is a mode of being, an umbrella term to describe how one relates (or does not relate) to the ...