Your surroundings may influence your social behavior more than you realize. New research from the Brain Research Institute at ...

Autistic children may be nonverbal or not have the words or other typical communication strategies to clearly explain their ...

The program helped responders learn how to recognize autism-related behaviors and prevent dangerous escalation during ...

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

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Taken together, these findings challenge a common misconception. Autistic individuals were not unwilling or unable to tailor ...

A team of researchers has discovered a new connection between a genetic alteration and social difficulties related to autism: A mutation in the neuroligin-3 gene reduces the effect of the hormone ...

FARGO, N.D. - When a 13-year-old Minnesota boy was banned from church after parishioners complained about his behavior, it exposed a painful truth so politically incorrect that some people feel guilty ...

An analysis of U.S. Medicaid data found that 26.7% of autistic adults without intellectual disability had an ADHD diagnosis. This was the case for 40.2% of autistic adults with intellectual disability ...