People with autism often come at life from a different angle—seeing details others miss, focusing on patterns rather than ...

Autism Learn & Play Inc. is highlighting the proven benefits of play-based learning for children on the autism spectrum, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melissa Chabot's 8-year-old son, Owen, is creative, has a great memory and smiles a lot. His specialty is clocks, she said. He ...

If you're autistic, you're more likely to have a learning disability than the general public. In fact, around 30% of autistic people also have a learning disability. But being autistic doesn't mean ...

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 36 children. That is nearly the equivalent of one child per classroom. This number has risen in recent years with ...

Josh Snyder, like many teens his age, is in the process of getting his driver's license. Snyder, 19, hopes being able to drive will help him better fit in with peers, even if it means taking a 40-hour ...

For years the treatment of autism has been dominated by a single treatment modality called applied behavioral analysis (ABA). ABA is a treatment modality that was designed for children in the early ...

Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct subtypes of autism, marking a transformative step in understanding the condition ...