UNIGE scientists have discovered that children with autism exhibit different brain patterns depending on their language ...

According to The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, can affect children's language development and communication in a variety ...

“He’s autistic,” I say, responding to a question about my 9-year-old son. After shifting in her chair, a co-worker responds: “It must be hard to have a child on the spectrum.” A version of this ...

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 ...

The idea of the “autism spectrum” is widely used in diagnosis, education and public discussion. First developed by the psychiatrist Lorna Wing in the 1980s, the term was intended to reflect the wide ...

There is a new culture to autism. It is slowly growing in online communities. Most people don’t know it exists, but you will find it if you dig around online. It is everywhere. It is a culture of ...

When you spend too much time on TikTok, there are a few tells: the hours that slip by on the couch when you told yourself you’d only take a short break; baldly telling someone you read an article ...