One family’s breakthrough may provide hope for thousands of parents who’ve been told their children will never talk. When their son, Mason, now 5, was diagnosed with nonverbal autism at two-and-a-half ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to ...

For people with autism—especially those with intellectual disabilities, or others with extensive support needs—communicating ...

Researchers Dr. Yuval Hart and Oded Wertheimer from the Psychology department and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Science (ELSC) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new ...

Amanda Knox, the 23-year-old American college student who was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy in 2007, allegedly after an orgy gone wrong, got ...

Maintaining eye contact can sometimes be difficult for autistic folks. Practice and therapy can help, but they’re not the only way to build relationships. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a term used ...

If you're a therapist, it's highly possible that you have encountered clients who had level 1 autism‚—previously called Asperger's syndrome—yet were unaware of it. I've heard many therapists say, with ...