Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE Reverend W. Awdry, the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, was on to something in 1943 when he developed the smiling steam engine. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...