In my role as editor-in-chief for a scholarly journal, I recently received a letter criticizing intervention research on improving social skills in children with an autism spectrum disorder. Normally, ...
A new study documents how schools might be teaching autistic students that they are the problem and discouraging ...
April is commonly recognised as both Autism Awareness Month and Autism Acceptance Month. While awareness focuses on identifying autism as a condition, acceptance dives deeper, emphasising inclusion, ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) It’s not surprising, then, that unfavorable first impressions create barriers for ...
A 25 per cent improvement in social abilities and reduced anxiety – those are the newly published results driving researchers ...
2021 has, in its own strange way, brought autism issues front and center. These developments speaks to the larger predicament facing autistic people today. Certainly, autistic individuals are making ...
When Dame Uta Frith began researching autism six decades ago, it was an extremely rare, little-understood condition which ...