One of the characteristics thought to be common in neurodivergent people is a struggle to recognize emotions. Particularly for people on the autistic spectrum, it is often more difficult to pick up ...

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 ...

Scientists at Autism Research Center at Cambridge University have designed a program involving cartoons to help autistic children identify emotions better. Alex Murphy, mother of an autistic child, ...

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 ...

Training Faces app aims to help those with autism recognize emotions CINCINNATI -- A Cincinnati-area mother is on a mission to help children and families across the globe break through some of the ...

Angry facial expressions produced at real world speeds are harder for people with autism to recognize than other facial expressions, a new study finds. Both the intensity of an expression and the ...

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 ...

Adults with autism are only slightly less accurate at reading people's facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, according to new research. Recent studies show we may need to revise widely ...

Most kids, even those with autism, don’t need to see this guy’s smile to tell he is happy. Oleh Slobodeniuk/Corbis People with autism face a host of difficulties in a society that doesn’t always ...

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 ...

(Reuters Health) - Children with autism may have a harder time reading emotions on people's faces than other kids, but they also misunderstand the feelings they see in a way that's pretty similar to ...