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

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

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 ...

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

It’s World Autism Month, and local nonprofits are staging events to shine a spotlight on support services for the neurodivergent. “Our community is growing and autism awareness is growing and more ...

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 ...

Early diagnosis and intervention are critical in improving quality of life in autism spectrum disorder, though there are barriers to accessing resources.