Parents of autistic babies interact with them differently before they are formally diagnosed with autism, a study has found, suggesting they pick up on the children's needs. Researchers from Emory ...

Autism is a developmental disorder that begins early in life and impacts communication, social interaction, and may come with certain patterns of behavior. According to the CDC, autism spectrum ...

Play takes all sorts of forms, changing from family to family. But one thing stays the same: its importance in your little one’s development. Autistic children often have a specific way of playing and ...

Journalist Jon Joaquin critiques Senate Bill 1822, highlighting the "medical model" bias and the lack of support for adult diagnosis.

Shelbie Archibeque told her 5-year-old son, Nathan, last summer he has autism. “He’s like, ‘What’s awesometism?’ ” Archibeque said. “So, that stuck. That’s why we call it ‘awesometism.’ ” Four ...

Historically, psychoanalysis has a fraught history in its handling of autism. Despite emerging evidence of neurological differences, the myth that bad parenting was the cause of autism was widely ...