Some children with autism showed significant improvements in recognizing and understanding emotion after viewing an animated series created by British autism researchers, a new study indicates. In an ...

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Neurotypical people have spent a long time believing people with autism struggle to pick up on social and emotional cues. According to new research, this isn't always the case. Share on Facebook ...

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The British government and Cambridge University have created a DVD using animated characters to help young children with autism learn about emotions. "Imagine what a confusing world it must be for a ...

Research found that The Transporters, a new series narrated by Stephen Fry, helped youngsters recognise key emotions after a trial period of just four weeks. The DVD was watched by a test group of 20 ...

A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or ...

There is a persistent stereotype that people with autism are individuals who lack empathy and cannot understand emotion. It’s true that many people with autism don’t show emotion in ways that people ...

A new study has challenged the long-held assumption that autistic people are emotionally stunted, finding that, in fact, people with autism experience complex emotions. It’s hoped these findings will ...

It is widely accepted that autism is associated with disordered emotion processing and, in particular, with deficits of emotional reciprocity such as impaired emotion recognition and reduced empathy.