Anxiety disorders are very common in autistic kids, affecting about half of all children at some point in time. Autistic children can experience anxiety in their own ways. They might be afraid of ...

According to Jared Edward Reser of the University of Southern California, certain species of mammals display solitary behaviour that strongly resembles what is often seen in autism. There appears to ...

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Imagine living in a world where your natural way of being is constantly at odds with societal norms. This is a daily reality for many autistic individuals, some of whom use hidden strategies to "fit ...

Pl ayful Minds Learning Center (LC) in Chicopee has been offering developmentally appropriate activities that foster emotional, social, and intellectual growth for eight years. Rally to Save Roe V.

You're weighing whether to pursue an autism evaluation for a 4-year-old and wondering if clinicians really take time to ...

Intraverbal behavior, a subset of verbal operants in which a verbal stimulus evokes a response with no point‐to‐point correspondence, is emerging as a critical area of investigation in autism spectrum ...

A Catalight researcher has been awarded a $4.5 million National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 grant to study RUBIES, a program aimed at reducing challenging behaviors among autistic elementary ...

Write about what you know. That’s why Eric Garcia wrote his 2021 book, “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation.” As an autistic individual reporting on politics as senior Washington ...

New research shows autism rates in women may match men by adulthood, revealing diagnostic bias and the urgent need to update ...

Why is autism often missed in girls and how is new research changing autism diagnosis across genders worldwide?