Communication is vital to expressing and getting what we want and need, bonding with other people and navigating the world in which we live. But, by definition, autistic people often deal with ...

May 9, 2025 at 4:45 p.m. EDTJust now Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Programs to support autistic people ...

Recent decades have seen a year-on-year increase in clinical diagnoses of autism. Unfortunately, autism and temperature ...

Many of the autistic adult clients who come to my organization for coaching didn’t know they were autistic until their 20s, 30s, 40s or even later. For most of them, learning they are autistic later ...

There is a continuing row over whether it matters if such a broad spectrum of people are defined as having autism ...

Living with autism means experiencing the world differently. While conversations about autism often focus on challenges, many autistic adults possess distinctive strengths that deserve recognition.

Loss and death are an inevitable part of life; how then do autistic people learn to process these events, given their own particular communication, language, and social challenges? How can autism ...

Sondra Williams is no stranger to medical diagnoses and treatments. As a teenager and young adult, she spent a decade in and out of mental-health facilities, medicated for conditions including ...

The opposite phenomenon, sensory hypo-responsiveness, occurs when a person does not react strongly enough to sensory stimuli.