A Penn State alumna turned faculty member is working to help improve communication solutions for children with a brain-based ...

In a landmark study published in 1998, researchers examined autism prevalence in a community in New Jersey to determine a ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that involves impairments in social interaction and communication, challenges with sensory processing, and repetitive behaviors. The term ...

Whether we are writing an email, rushing for a bus, or humming a tune, every thought, feeling, and action relies on ...

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a rise in the number autism spectrum disorder diagnoses in children. And this year, for the first time, Black and brown children had ...

I was recently reading The Happiness Hypothesis by psychologist Jonathan Haidt (2006). Haidt writes: “In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of ...

Diagnoses have climbed by 175 percent in just the last decade—with the greatest increases in girls and women. Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being diagnosed ...

An “invisible” learning or language difficulty could be what is holding your child back. As schools and states aim to measure and increase student proficiency in foundational skills like reading, ...