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 ...

In the decades since the "clinical" definitions of autism in the 1980s, many have been advocating to understand autism as a normal part of the neurodiversity spectrum rather than as a "problem" to be ...

An artificial intelligence model capable of reading and interpreting animal behavior like language has been developed by ...

As an influential federal autism committee considers moving to “neutral, strengths-based” language, some advocates are pushing back arguing that stripping words will merely “sanitize” the realities ...

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 ...

In recent years, there has been increasing awareness that autistic girls tend to present differently than autistic boys. This often leads to the underdiagnosis (or delayed diagnosis) of girls with ...