After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, and approximately half develop more complex language, according to a new ...

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Mattel spent 18 months working with an advocacy organization to develop the doll, which includes noise-canceling headphones ...

Families in rural Missouri often experience long waits for an autism evaluation, but a new AI-assisted device could increase access to care.

Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's ...

Academics at Bournemouth University (BU) have been exploring the impact of menopause on autistic people and discovered that ...

Mattel recently released an autistic Barbie, and transphobes are freaking out about the doll “promoting gender identity” ...

Not everyone is happy with the new doll, but autistic people and advocates have reason to cheer.

Mattel's new Barbie with autism has garnered mixed feelings from people within the autism community. Why?

Autistic and non-autistic people express emotions differently through their facial movements, according to a new study, which ...

Barbie's first autistic doll has been developed with sensory-sensitive features in mind. See how.