Children on the autism spectrum, often at odds with their own emotions, may find help in an unlikely place: their own inner voice. A team from the University of Pittsburgh and collaborators tested a ...

Autistic children—and adults—often communicate differently to neurotypical people. Key characteristics of autistic speech can include less eye contact, focusing on the details rather than the overall ...

Elizabeth Bonker is a silent woman with a loud mission. She wants government agencies to cover the costs of training people ...

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 ...

Around a third of autistic people – children and adults alike – are unable to share what they want using speech. You may have heard the term “non-verbal” to describe them, but that’s nearly always ...