Many therapists tell me that, with hindsight, they're sure that some of their past clients were autistic. These therapists often feel that they used to have preconceptions about how autistic people ...

In both our personal and professional lives, we’ve likely encountered challenges when working alongside others due to differences in communication style and expectations. However, when working with ...

Autism is clinically defined by impairments in social communication, leading to assumptions that individuals with autism are less effective communicators. But a new study challenges this notion. The ...

The Pennsylvania State Police received 445 Autism Sensory Aid Bags from the Collaborative Autism Movement, which partnered ...

Jess Fletcher describes her 11-year-old son Hunter as a "little jokester" who loves swimming, baseball and building marble runs. "He loves to swim. That's one of his passions. He goes swimming almost ...

In my role as editor-in-chief for a scholarly journal, I recently received a letter criticizing intervention research on improving social skills in children with an autism spectrum disorder. Normally, ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with more than 1,200 risk genes, raising a fundamental question: Do these ...