Carsyn’s book, Our Own League: Growing Up with Jacob, is Carsyn’s passion piece born from her desire to explain her life with ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) emerges as a pressing concern in child development, with its complexity and varied manifestations posing significant challenges. Affecting about 1 in 68 children, ASD ...

In the New York State Legislature, debate around the adoption of a communication bill of rights for people with severe ...

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

Autism is clinically defined by impairments in social communication, leading to assumptions that individuals with autism are less effective communicators. But a new study challenges this notion. The ...

The idea of the “autism spectrum” is widely used in diagnosis, education and public discussion. First developed by the psychiatrist Lorna Wing in the 1980s, the term was intended to reflect the wide ...

Speech therapy for autism helps improve communication skills, social interactions, and understanding of language. This can make daily interactions and learning more manageable for autistic people. In ...

Facilitated communication is a form of alternative communication developed to help individuals with severe autism or other individuals who cannot express their thoughts and feelings vocally.

Detroit rapper 42 Dugg is channeling his spotlight into a heartfelt celebration of fatherhood and autism awareness with the release of My Kind of Normal, a children’s book written by his son, D’aire, ...