A new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders suggests that the ability to comprehend complex ...

Researchers have found that children with autism spectrum disorder may not always process body movements effectively, especially if they are distracted by something else. Noticing and understanding ...

You're looking at a truck. You're with a young child and he follows your gaze. He's interested in the object you're looking at without you pointing at it. This is called joint attention and it is one ...

As an influential federal autism committee considers moving to “neutral, strengths-based” language, some advocates are pushing back arguing that stripping words will merely “sanitize” the realities ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

For most of human history, the mind was a mystery box. Behavior emerged, and we simply accepted it—strange, brilliant, troubled, gifted. But today, we peer inside that box. We map genes. We track ...