Empathy facilitates effective communication and allows our children, even those with ASD, to understand how much we care about and love them. It permits us to be more effective disciplinarians as ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Children with autism often struggle to identify emotional cues in other people's voices because of differences in the wiring and function of a key social center in their brains, according to a new ...

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is the gold standard therapy for autistic and other developmentally unique children. ABA therapy once was conducted in highly structured settings like therapy ...

Unique patterns of brain organization may explain why children with autism often have superior math and problem-solving skills compared with healthy peers with similar IQs.

Strangers explain my autism to me "You don't seem autistic": Those on the spectrum find neurotypicals often explain our condition to us. Why?

“It’s important to recognize that all children may not participate in Halloween the same way,” said Kolton Sellers, Assistant Director, of the FSU Early Childhood Autism Program.

In her own words, Battuello says the results showed the manganese levels going off the chart. She was surprised, and started researching the mineral on her own. She became alarmed when she found some ...

The increased rate of diagnoses of autism in adult women doesn't necessarily mean more people are being born with autism. Experts explain the uptick.