With national increased prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder comes great local need for resources in Southwest Florida.

Community support has been overwhelming. Local high schools, parents, and volunteers have rallied around the project, with ...

Among a small cohort of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, a 12-week course of memantine led to improved ...

Speech ability can also change depending on the environment. For example, being in a loud and bright space like a hospital or ...

What if you didn’t have to suppress your true self, communication style, and identity so that others would accept you?

Children with autism can be prone to wandering and are often drawn to water. Parents often face the burden on their own.

One Central Coast mother who blames pesticides for her son’s autism now helps pregnant farmworkers stay healthy by avoiding ...

Seven-year-old Mar’Dasia Forte, a child with autism, drowned in a West Chester retention pond less than a year after a similar death. Her mother and local advocates are urging state and local ...

Sensory differences are central to autism, influencing how everyday environments are perceived, experienced, and impacting ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway—a network that processes faces, gaze, and speech—is already active at birth or shortly thereafter.

Alcohol use by pregnant women is known to be a major cause of neurodevelopmental conditions. Yet the search for autism ...

Paying less attention to faces is one of the key markers of autism spectrum disorder. But while researchers have begun to uncover the brain network that supports processing of social stimuli such as ...