Diagnoses of autism and other neurodivergence are rising. Jessica Eccles and Elizabeth Weir say that the trend is real—and that claims of “overdiagnosis” and insistence on exact case numbers are ...

Angry facial expressions produced at real world speeds are harder for people with autism to recognize than other facial expressions, a new study finds. Both the intensity of an expression and the ...

Adults with autism are only slightly less accurate at reading people's facial emotions compared to their non-autistic peers, according to new research. Recent studies show we may need to revise widely ...

Using eye-tracking methods, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly more time visually examining dynamic ...

First Person is a forum for personal musings and reflections from readers. In 1970, the year I was born, April was first recognized in the United States as Autism Awareness Month. As the rate of ...