A recent study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry provides evidence that many autistic children can learn to speak a second language without any social exposure to it. These ...

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 ...

Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people with autism. Rather than viewing autism as a deficit, he sees it as a ...

For many families of minimally verbal autistic (MVA) children, communication often feels like an uphill battle. But now, thanks to a new AI-powered app developed by researchers at KAIST in ...

Autism is not an illness that needs to be cured. It is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how a person communicates, ...

Six-year-old Antoni, born in the UK to Polish parents, speaks only a few English words in class and often looks confused when the teacher gives instructions. He could simply be adjusting to English—or ...

You ask your child a question. They don’t look at you. Their gaze drifts to the corner of the room, or the floor, or ...