Sitting in small green plastic chairs, eight 3- and 4-year-olds point to cut-out whales posted around the room, at times jumping up to fetch the animals that correspond with the part of story being ...

New research suggests that the way brain networks reorganize moment-to-moment predicts autism severity. Children who spent ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a three-year grant to study the use of eye-tracking technology to measure "implicit word comprehension" for some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will add an ...

For people with autism—especially those with intellectual disabilities, or others with extensive support needs—communicating ...

When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s ...

Will a child who's evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted? Early-childhood experts in Quebec say they've have come up with a better way to find ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children’s eyes move when they turn their heads. They found that kids who carry a variant of a gene ...