Researchers have identified a non-verbal, neural marker of autism. This marker shows that individuals with autism are slower to dampen neural activity in response to visual signals in the brain. This ...

Autism—a neurological and developmental disorder that impacts communication, learning, and behavior—is being discussed (on ...

Adults with Asperger’s syndrome may have difficulties with communication and social interaction. They may also find it hard to regulate their emotions or understand the emotions of others. In 2013, ...

Two new autism detection methods are promising to offer clinicians objective diagnostic tools that are not based on subjective behavioral assessments. Both systems are in early stages of clinical ...

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

Clinicians are meeting more and more adult patients who think they "have autism"—but were not diagnosed as children. This apparent increased frequency of adults presenting with self-diagnosed autism ...

In recent years, a lot of attention has been paid to the difficulties of children on the autism spectrum. Less thought has focused on the issues that these children may face as they enter adulthood.