THE current BBC drama The A Word has highlighted the difficulties families with a child living with autism face on a daily basis. One of the most common developmental disabilities in Northern Ireland, ...

Many children with autism have difficulty sleeping and new research suggests that such nighttime troubles may be directly tied to behavioral issues. Kids on the spectrum who didn’t sleep well at night ...

Lots of kids like video games, but new research suggests that for those with autism, play can be problematic. In a study looking at 169 boys with autism ages 8 to 18, researchers found that playing ...

Even as a practitioner who works with autistic women, and as an autistic woman myself, understanding what exactly autism spectrum disorder is can be difficult. We tend to think of spectrums in terms ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in how people learn, ...