AUTISM is strongly associated with the psychosis spectrum, both at trait and diagnostic levels, a new systematic review and ...

A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or ...

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Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, diagnosed in people with limited verbal language and highly repetitive behavior.

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities.

Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus on the disorder has opened the way for them to argue their cause. Jodie ...

"When there are a lot of sounds or lights that interact with her, her body will start vomiting," dad David Caruth tells PEOPLE ...

EAST STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Stroud Area Regional Police now have new tools to better support people on the ...

Autism remains widely misunderstood in parts of Africa. A mother in Guinea fights for her child - A family in Guinea first ...

Families can choose to share information that lets first responders know when a person with autism may be present in a home ...