Echolalia, characterised by the repetition of words or phrases previously heard, is a salient feature in many individuals on the autism spectrum. Once regarded solely as a non-functional, repetitive ...

Why do some children with autism communicate more easily than others, even when they hear the same words? Researchers from ...

Many therapists tell me that, with hindsight, they're sure that some of their past clients were autistic. These therapists often feel that they used to have preconceptions about how autistic people ...

A new study utilizes 128-sensor EEG to prove that altered aperiodic neural noise predicts autism communication challenges.

Areas of the brain associated with reward and attention distribution in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders do not ...

A new non-invasive brain stimulation technique known as accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) improves social communication at one month follow-up and has a favorable safety profile ...

The redefinition of autism in DSM5 has already caused a great deal of controversy. In fact, I’d venture to say it’s helped make this latest DSM revision the most contentious and disputed ever. Now ...

When people hear the word autism, it’s often associated with a specific set of traits. But in reality, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is just that—a spectrum, encompassing a broad range of differences ...

In a recent study published in Nature Microbiology, a group of researchers investigated the associations between multikingdom gut microbiome components and functional markers with autism spectrum ...