TUCSON, Ariz. — According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.7-percent of children in the U.S. are diagnosed with autism. Specifically in Arizona, that number is 1.4-percent.

Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people ...

KINGSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — New research in our area promises to get a better picture of how the brain of a child with autism works. This is going on at the University of Rhode Island and is part of a ...

As autism has grown in prevalence, so too have attempts to make sense of it. From placing unfounded blame on vaccines to seeking a genetic cause, Americans have struggled to understand what autism is ...

Noticing and understanding what it means when a person leans into a conversation or takes a step back and crosses their arms is a vital part of human communication. Researchers at the Del Monte ...

When and why children blink may provide researchers some important clues about how children with autism process and take in information. The new finding appears in the Proceedings of the National ...

There is this picture—you may have seen it. It is black and white and has two silhouettes facing one another. Or maybe you see the black vase with a white background. But now, you likely see both. It ...

Some teenagers with autism use a different set of eye-movement patterns from their non-autistic counterparts while recognizing faces, according to James McPartland, Ph.D., Harris Professor in the Yale ...

Spotting the signs of autism is only the first step. Once a parent decides to pursue a formal evaluation, the next question ...