After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, ...

For autistic children, receiving more hours of treatment may not lead to better outcomes, according to a new peer-reviewed study by researchers at the nonprofit Catalight Research Institute. The ...

Emotion regulation is a universal challenge for adults and children alike and the primary reason why individuals seek psychological support. Autistic children’s emotion regulation is impacted by ...

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I’m excited to join CASP and to work alongside an extraordinary community of providers committed to improving quality ...

When Tiffany Hammond was growing up in Texas, in the nineteen-nineties, other children teased her for how she spoke: she talked too softly, she talked in a monotone, she paused too long between words, ...

An expensive therapy praised as the gold standard for helping autistic children gain the skills they need to become ...

The Simons Sleep Project (SSP) is a new open-science resource for studying sleep in children with autism. Led by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientist Prof. Ilan Dinstein, the new data resource ...

Mattel's new Barbie with autism has garnered mixed feelings from people within the autism community. Why?