Jennifer Briggs and her husband struggled through their early years as parents. Their daughter, Sarah, was diagnosed with ...

Podcast claims non-verbal autistic children have mind-reading abilities - its success isn't because of its content but its ...

Previously Baron-Cohen had focused on theory of mind as it related to autism and published the book Mindblindness ... which makes it hard to selectively pay attention to certain things and ...

They can excel at organization and attention to detail ... TV shows, and books. About half of people with savant syndrome have autism, but only about 10 percent of people with autism are savants.

A new book by pediatrician Debra Hendrickson (“The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change”) and a new study from the National Academy of Sciences on ...

“I would get notes about my kid, saying, ‘He’s not trying, he’s not giving us his best, he’s being defiant,’” Caroline said. ...

I had my first date when I was 25 years old. The guy was someone I’d shared a class with in college. We had a chance meeting ...

In the mid-1990s, Brick Township residents Bobbie and Billy Gallagher were desperate to find help for their two young children with autism ... but it got the attention of the Gallaghers ...

Developmental milestones are physical or behavioral signs of progress in infants and children. Unlike growth, these are ...

This is the question that Paul Offit addresses in his gripping book Autism's False ... this controversy diverts attention from some of the real issues—is the rate of autism increasing, and ...