Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the CDC, “Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability that can cause significant social, ...

Thursday, April 3, to Wednesday, April 9 Alternative Augmented Communication, featuring a presentation by Lynn Sweeney, as part of Autism Awareness Month, at Central Michigan University's Anspach Hall ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) emerges as a pressing concern in child development, with its complexity and varied manifestations posing significant challenges. Affecting about 1 in 68 children, ASD ...

“The hardest part of autism is not being able to talk.” – Jeremy Sicile-Kira Imagine what it must be like to be unable to communicate clearly your wants and needs; this is something most people on the ...

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

Our children are giving us clues all the time — we just need to learn to read them! By opening our eyes to the world of sensory communication, you can learn ways to help you and your child understand ...

A new study is testing whether an intervention with parents and teachers can help children with autism transfer newly acquired social communication skills from home into school. The 'Paediatric Autism ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Jim Elliott—a long-time reader contributor to Notes and one of the core ...

Facilitated communication is a form of alternative communication developed to help individuals with severe autism or other individuals who cannot express their thoughts and feelings vocally.

American writer Steve Silberman's book on autism, Neurotribes, has won the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The book has impressed judges and reviewers at a time of growing public awareness ...

Detroit rapper 42 Dugg is channeling his spotlight into a heartfelt celebration of fatherhood and autism awareness with the release of My Kind of Normal, a children’s book written by his son, D’aire, ...

Autism is clinically defined by impairments in social communication, leading to assumptions that individuals with autism are less effective communicators. But a new study challenges this notion. The ...