A carefully controlled laboratory experiment in Belgium has delivered one of the most rigorous direct tests yet of the double ...

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 ...

Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to ...

This article predates Brown Brothers Media’s ownership of Science Blog and has not been reviewed under our current editorial process. It is preserved as part of the publication’s archive. A new study ...

Autism spectrum disorder is a broad range of conditions that can affect a person’s behavior, social skills and communication. ASD affects people in different ways and continues throughout a person’s ...

“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 ...

the most compelling evidence supporting the clinical benefits of music therapy lies in social-emotional responsiveness and communication, including reduced anxiety, improved speech output, receptive ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is highly heterogeneous. Molecular subtyping of ASD based on gene expression data will help address the biological heterogeneity of ASD. We analyze RNA-seq data from ...

Many therapists tell me that, with hindsight, they're sure that some of their past clients were autistic. These therapists often feel that they used to have preconceptions about how autistic people ...

For decades, autism spectrum disorder was considered a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, a diagnosis that once given ...