The concept of the card came from 24-year-old Chester County resident Alex Mann, who has now visited 500 law enforcement agencies in the northeast to spread a message about how those with autism ...

After a mom’s plea on social media for birthday cards for her son , who has autism, went viral, he’s been busy opening the more than 20,000 cards he received from well-wishers from all over ...

McKINNEY, TX – Loneliness is an unspoken symptom of autism. Hunter Kleis is high-functioning, but he is non-verbal. "He might not speak. He might not have social skills, but he likes to have fun ...

Teaching emotions has been part of autism curriculums for decades. I remember dated flashcards with pictures of faces and asking students to identify which emotion was being expressed on the card ...

Autism, therefore, should not be seen as a drawback. Anger and anxiety may be some of the challenging emotions experienced by people with autism.

An unfortunate myth about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is that diagnosed individuals have no emotions, that they are somehow a bit like Spock from Star Trek: analytical, logical but not very ...

Jo Black, Mahsa Barzy, David Williams, Heather Ferguson. Intact counterfactual emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from eye-tracking. Autism Research, 2018; DOI: 10.1002/aur.2056 ...

The inability to regulate emotion in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) appears to be due to impaired brain activity, new research shows. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI ...